Is anyone else experiencing a really slow connection to UMD? It's taking ages to load pictures or download purchases. All other websites seem fine, but UMD being very slow. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Sometimes it is very slow... I have a really fast broadband (lucky me) but sometimes it is just so slow you have to refresh your page again and again...it is just so frustrating when other websites cope so well. Perhaps someone more techy can sort this out.
There are a few things that can cause a slow connection. The first thing is your system and internet connection. But since it is not happening with all sites, that might rule out your stuff. There is a packet size thing that can happen where your packet size is too big and your ISP is fragmenting the packet in a funny way. The default packet size is 1500, but some ISP's do douchey things like set their packet size to 1480 so that all packets are fragmented which leads to re-transmission and other things that cause the website to run slowly. There are apps that require a bigger packet size like sql that use jumbo frames. ISP's should have their equipment configured for jumbo frames to get around this 1500 thing.
The other thing that can lead to this is your path to the site. There may be a link further down the line from your connection that is causing issues. I will assume that you are on windows. If you press the windows key on your keyboard and then press the letter R an run box will come up. Type in cmd and hit enter. You will get a black box with a blinking cursor. In that box type in tracert www.umd.net then hit enter. What that does is show you all the hops between you and the umd. You do not want any of those hops to be above 100 ms if you are located in the united states. Do not post your results here. Just look at the numbers.
The other thing that this could be is server response time. Companies sell equipment for tens of thousands of dollars that monitor networks and tell you from the information in your packets what is happening and how long things are taking. It can tell you how much time your traffic spent getting to the server, how much time the traffic took waiting for a response from the server, then how much time for that data to get back to your machine. The closest thing I have found to this is https://tools.pingdom.com/ If you put the UMD in there you can then choose the region to test from to get something close to you. I will let you know that they rate this site a C because of all the redirects that happen, there are far too many of them.
Hopefully this was the kind of techy response cakeyfacey was looking for.
There's definitely been some slowdown and lots of folks are noticing it. If I had to guess I'd say the site's server resources are getting hammered by AI scrapers.
messyhot said: There's definitely been some slowdown and lots of folks are noticing it. If I had to guess I'd say the site's server resources are getting hammered by AI scrapers.
I am glad to see that I am not alone in noticing that the site has been really slow. I have noticed the site has been extremely slow to access and navigate for at least the last month or so.
Well said! The last few times I've been on I've had to give up. Especially the chat bar is unusable often taking a few minutes to post a reply. And often not appearing at all. Viewing an album is impossible, each one freezing the feed while it loads s----l-----o------w-----l-------y zzzzzzzzz
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