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Re: SERVER MOVE WEEKEND

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All good here using Firefox.
Site loads a lot quicker for me, pretty much instant. From one of the longest loading sites I visit, it's not jumped to one of the quickest. Everything seems to appear in an instant, no loading the text, then struggling with the pictures, the menu picture taking it's time and finally failling on the "Rail Sim" and "Train Sim" banners :P

Forums seem slightly quicker, but I will need to test one with large pictures. Although I could just be imagining it all because I know there has been a major change at your end. But that homepage certainly is quicker!

Makes me wonder why other websites aren't on the same type of server :S
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Lad491 wrote:
The only thing is I have been testing the new speed by downloading the Northern Line route (approx 75 MB) and the max speed I'm getting is only, on average, 110 KB/s, meaning that the download takes about 10 minutes.
Ive just downloaded it :) took 33 seconds at 2.27MB/s It might be worth doing a tracert as John has suggested above to see if there is a bottleneck somewhere.
I just tested on my home broadband and I got it in 33 seconds also. With these sort of speeds available they will highlight any capacity problems along the route from your PC to the UKTS servers. Having the diagnostics available will allow us to quickly establish where any problem lies.
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Post by NeutronIC »

At home I rarely get that kind of speed unless it's about 3am in the morning - so it might simply be contention to your connection.

It's worth noting what your connection speed is, what speeds you get in downloads, and what you generally see on an average smattering of other download sites at about the same time of day etc - if things slow right down then go run a speedtest.net check, download some files from microsoft and/or download.com etc and compare the speeds - it might just be things dragging to crawl because of contention at your exchange (this is my problem on my cable link I think, I can usually get about 5-10mb/s but 20mb/s is available only for when everyone is asleep I think :) ).

It'll be interesting to see what happens when 50mb/s comes out, yikes, that's half my total bandwidth connection on the server - two of those can max the whole link out, albeit only for a few seconds if the file is seriously big :)

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The two slowest things for me were View My Uploads and Show Thumbs in the album.

I used to have to wait for the list to complete.

Now they fill out quicker than I can scroll.
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Hi
Unfortunately the non-premium server keeps timing out.
I tried the 'MRCE 189' file twice this morning.

On the screenshots issue the board points to album .com, where as I think the new server is .co.uk
http://forums.uktrainsim.com/viewtopic. ... 7#p1107527

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Just to add to Jon's last post with regards to non premium.

First time trying to download something, the page says something on the lines that it cant find the download, i then wait for it to expire. On a second attempt the file starts to download, gets to about 25% and a message pops up on my pc saying the source file can't be found, and it fails.

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Excellent download speeds Matt, it had been a bit slow for some time with me.
Superb job by you, thanks for the time and trouble.

Just one thing I noticed, unable to log into the ftp site now, at least the right hand panel is now blank.

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WHOA! I'm impressed by the new speeds.

Just curious, but will this mean much faster uploads as well?
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chrisiveson wrote:Excellent download speeds Matt, it had been a bit slow for some time with me.
Superb job by you, thanks for the time and trouble.

Just one thing I noticed, unable to log into the ftp site now, at least the right hand panel is now blank.

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Ca you guys confirm what address you are FTPing to (or trying to) ? I just opened up my FTP client (WS-FTP pro) and got straight in to ftp.uktrainsim.com
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Yes i Emailed Matt this morning about ftp,he is looking into it :wink:

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Further to my query

1) Would I need to email the tracert diagnostic reports to the support AT uktrainsim DOT com email?

2) I'm not really an expert in the field of computer servers but what will the tracert tell me?

Thanks for any info.
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Yes - email them to the address in my other post and we will look at them to determine where the bottleneck is.
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I've just sorted my own, changed host from .com to .co.uk
Works OK now. :D

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2) I'm not really an expert in the field of computer servers but what will the tracert tell me?
Each "hop" from your computer to the UKTS server via all the intermediary links of the internet will appear, along with the time taken for that hop. Previously once the hop crossed the Atlantic i was getting figures into the 300's milliseconds. Now in the uk the are mostly very low double figures - 1-'s to 15's and some are even single figure. So if you see a jump or jumps with figures higher than normal, that could indicate a bottleneck there. Since there are many routes an internet path can take between two points it can be helpful for establishing the route your connection is taking as opposed to "say" mine.
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