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freedomdwarf1 -> RE: What is wrong with this website? (1/14/2017 7:38:59 PM)
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ORIGINAL: WhoreMods
If there's nobody else using the bandwidth and the server's clearly limited processing power, then it'll work faster for him, at least.
[;)]
I'm on here at the same time as a lot of other people.
IF the server itself was lagging, I'd be getting the same general lag as everyone else.
But I'm not.
I'm not even on the same continent as the CS server and not on the same backbone.
As I said, I only have a 10Mb internet connection; slower than many others on here.
It is shared between 17 machines of which more than half are doing something on the 'net at any one time.
There are sooo many connections between your device and the end-point and any one of them could be at fault.
Most hiccups and problems occur within 50 miles of your device - before it even gets to your ISP's routing server.
Most of the lags and page-loading hiccups are caused by wireless/Wifi connections.
That's because your transmissions are competing with everyone else using wireless devices.
As an example: I have an old Dell 9300 laptop that has wireless, bluetooth and RJ45 ethernet (cable) connections.
On wireless, I have 13 hops that takes 67ms average when it reaches my ISP.
On bluetooth, I have 19 hops with an average of 110ms to my ISP.
Via the cabled connection (wireless turned off), I have 3 hops and an average of 6ms to reach my ISP.
And that's before it gets out onto the backbone and routed halfway across the world.
For those that wonder what the figures mean: compared to the hard-wired cable connection, wireless is 11x slower and bluetooth is more than 18x slower.
For those interested, there are on average 14-18 other active wireless connections within 50 yards of me.
If I connect via wireless (or bluetooth), it's horribly slow, lags like a bitch, often stutters and doesn't load properly 10-20% of the time.
Via the direct cable connection, it's reasonably fast and very rarely fails to load - and no lag.
If I switch from XP to Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows 7 drops out more frequently and is definitely slower than XP but the cable/wireless figures are similar.
Same hardware, same router, same ISP, accessing the same site from the same location with the same browser (Firefox v51beta13) running the same antivirus software.
So the way you connect to the 'net can make a huge difference on how a site appears to behave (or not).
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ORIGINAL: WhoreMods
If it is broke though (and you seem to be the only poster in this thread who thinks it isn't, bear in mind) some sort of fix might be in order.
Sure, there are some things that need fixing on the site itself - it needs a mahoosive upgrade for a start.
Many people are reporting 'broken' things that I'm finding are not actually broken.
So I'm inclined to think (based on my experiments with my machines here) that most of the problems are more local and not actually with the site itself.
Many use wireless/WiFi connections or smart-phones/tablets that use similar types of connections.
That, in itself, is probably the cause of 90% of the lag and page-loading problems.
The fact that this site is old and not been updated properly for mobile devices is almost certainly the cause of 90% of the remaining problems.
So apart from the known feature failures that affect absolutely everyone, most of peoples problems are how they access the site or connect to the 'net rather than the site itself.
And yes, I know people will say that other sites work fine and the problem is with CS.
What they don't realise is, the moment you point to somewhere else in the world, your route to getting there isn't the same as it is with CS - even if the other server is sitting right next to it.
[ETA: this page took about one second to post from a preview, close the preview page, close the original editing window, and display my post in the thread]
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