Forum pages taking forever to load.....

[eljefe2]

Recently the forum pages here have been taking a very long time to load.  Clicking on a link it can take anywhere from 30 seconds to 2 minutes before the new page opens.

Additional info....I'm seeing long ping times to the lithium server.

Setup here:

Win 7 (x64) SP1

Hardwired to Actiontec Rev I router

IE 10 or Firefox 26.0

Microsoft Security Essentials

75/35 plan

Speedtests all normal

Anyone else seeing this problem?

[Justin46]

Yep, I am seeing the same thing. Been happening for the last couple of weeks. But it is not consistent; sometimes multiple pages in a row will appear normally, then one or more will be slow, anywhere from 10-30 seconds up to 5 or even 10 minutes!

All other sites I visit are working just fine, so it appears to me to be somewhere within the Verizon/Lithium sphere.

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Justin
FiOS TV, 25/25 Internet, and Digital Voice user
QIP7232, QIP7100-P2, IMG 1.9.5
Keller, TX 76248 (VHO 1)

[eljefe2]

Thanks.

I hope Verizon/Lithium are aware of the problem and working on correcting it. 

[walt178]

Here also.  Neither browser or OS makes a difference.  Every other site is fine.

[viafax999]

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@eljefe wrote:

Thanks.

I hope Verizon/Lithium are aware of the problem and working on correcting it. 

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About a week of it now.  Also today am seeing unable to connect to verizon.com when responding to forum threads.

They probably called customer support and were told it all looked fine.

[eljefe2]

I just ran a couple of experiments and the results might be interesting.

I tried browsing the forum on my iPhone 5s.  When connected via wifi to my Actiontec router (good connection...I see ~38 mb/s up and down on a speedtest) I had the same issue...pages taking forever to load.

I turned off wifi and reverted to at&t LTE for data and pages seemed to load much faster.

I went a step further, left wifi on the Actiontec off, and created a personal hotspot on the iPhone.  I then connected my Win 7 laptop to the personal hotspot and went to the forum.  Again, pages were much faster.   I get much faster loads on the laptop when connected to the iPhone's hotspot than I do with that same laptop connected via Ethernet to my router.

Seems like the problem may be somewhere in Verizon's own routing to the Lithium server(s).

For whatever it's worth.

[Justin46 · Accepted solution]

I have made the Verizon tech support people here on the Forums aware of this issue and referenced this thread.

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Justin
FiOS TV, 25/25 Internet, and Digital Voice user
QIP7232, QIP7100-P2, IMG 1.9.5
Keller, TX 76248 (VHO 1)

[eljefe2]

Thanks Justin.

I'll be keeping my fingers crossed.

[viafax999]

Guess somebody fixed something.

Very fast responses now.

Would be interesting to know what it was.

Think I'll go back to Chrome now as I switched to IE  (ver 11) to see if it was a Chrome issue but there was no difference, other than apparently some of the pages on the forum don't render correctly with IE 11

[eljefe2]

Whoa!   The problem indeed seems to be gone.  Amazing.

Ping to the Lithium server seems to have been fixed too:

I too would love to know what (if anything) was done to fix this.  That is, of course, assuming it's still fixed tomorrow.