Forum issues.

Castiel · 19 Nov 2011 at 13:24

For the last two days I have some serious problems accessing the forum, it is very slow, often fails to connect and is generally unreliable and sluggish.

Is this just me, or are others experiencing problems and is there an answer if so?

Castiel · 19 Nov 2011 at 13:28

I've got Virgin also.....maybe it is them messing about. Why only OCuk?

Castiel · 19 Nov 2011 at 13:31

Xordium said:
It's you mate they are trying to tell you something.

Been there mate.....it didn't take!

Castiel · 19 Nov 2011 at 16:02

Glaucus said:
Still doesn't fix it, seems Totaly odd and bizarre.

Same.

Castiel · 19 Nov 2011 at 16:02

wkingsnorth said:
Try using a different web browser?

Same on Safari and Firefox.

Castiel · 19 Nov 2011 at 16:10

AmTechFox said:
Try pressing F5 less when looking for threads to debate in.

I don't use the F5 key anyway. I'm strickly a refresh boy....

Castiel · 19 Nov 2011 at 16:11

Dimple said:
Instead of starting another thread can somebody try this site for me please?

www.sgfl.org.uk

Nothing......been waiting a while, then it times out.

Castiel · 19 Nov 2011 at 19:01

mrk said:
Virgin Media 30Mb here and last 2 days same issue. If I use the HSDPA connection via my phone it's perfectly fine so that confirms it's an ISP related issue and ONLY the OcUK forums are affected, nothing else at all.

Bizarre!

Also a traceroute shows routing issues through the VM network.

ALSO! The routing issues thread on VM Forums had a post update today about.....new routing issues.

So yeah, that explains that.

I'm on 100mb VM and only OCuk is affected, so that explains it. got a link for the VM forum thread?

Castiel · 20 Nov 2011 at 23:08

Mammalian said:
virgin media are denying there is an issue when speaking on the phone though they offer a solution to the issue by following the below instructions. prob a better way to do it but this is how they advised.

open chrome -> options -> under bonnet -> nework -> change proxy settings -> change LAN settings -> select use proxy server -> in the address field enter webcache.virginmedia.com -> port 8080

only issue i'm not having is i can't use xampp which is more a pain so will change it back and forth

Tentatively it seems to have speeded up. Time will tell, thanks.

Castiel · 23 Nov 2011 at 06:15

Mine is back to normal now also.