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Re: lugnet.com upgrade/downtime/heads-up
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Date: 
Sat, 26 Jun 1999 03:45:27 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Mike Stanley writes:
> The only slowness I've noticed is while reading and posting news.
> Normally I zip from article to article, with even hundred line
> articles loading almost instantly.

So life's pretty rough, huh?  ;-)


> Sometimes, though, there are waits
> of up to 30-45 seconds, rarely longer.

That sort of delay can't be the server unless it's gone belly up or is
suffering from some massive head wound, which hasn't ever happened AFAIK.


> I've attributed that to the remarkably crappy nature of the routing
> through Qwest (our DS-3 provider) to pair, since I've seen the same
> slowness from time to time when accessing the server on which
> guarded-inn lives.

Yeah, that sounds a lot more like the culprit.

Anyway, back to your original question -- no, the OS upgrade is purely a
server-based thing, and not anything to do with connectivity or latency or
anything outside the server.

--Todd



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(...) Well, when they're working correctly, the DS-3 we have, along with our 6 T1's, make bandwidth ok. When the students are gone for the summer. When they're here sucking it all down, it still stinks. :) (...) Believe me, I'm more than happy to (...) (27 years ago, 26-Jun-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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(...) The only slowness I've noticed is while reading and posting news. Normally I zip from article to article, with even hundred line articles loading almost instantly. Sometimes, though, there are waits of up to 30-45 seconds, rarely longer. I've (...) (27 years ago, 26-Jun-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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