Posted on 01/25/2009 11:28:34 AM PST by combat_boots
Please save this link as a favorite. I post it here today because there is a 100% packet loss in the Vienna, VA, area going on. Generally, traffic is slower today.
Could you possibly please expand on what this means and/or what the ramifications might be??
Sorry for my ignorance in these matters.....
Ditto to UncleIkes request.
What does this all mean?
Thanks, FRiends —
I’m not feeling quite so embarrased about not ‘getting’ it, now... ;~)
It means that someone is not logged on.
NP!! I wonder if we will ever get an answer.
The Internet traffic report is a site which maintains the speed and up time for the internet backbone throughout the world. Its use is as a referene tool in the same way that you might check the traffic report on the Interstates/in your town.
Packet loss shows congestion. By analogy, you use packet loss information to analyze where ‘accidents’ of one type or another are occurring or have occurred.
There are times when people ask why FR is so slow. The hubs, routers, state backbone sites and integrity of networks each contribute to speed, as you know. This and the health of FR servers may be impacted by the health of the network nodes. The cause can be Denial of Service attacks/swarms of people trying to get at sites; these can be part of a pattern.
I post it as a reference for you all, too. Sorry to not explain more. Someone with more knowledge of the technical specifics can jump in here.
I have noticed slow response times on and off today at various sites. A couple of times I have been notified that FR was unavailable. After a couple of repeated clicks I was able to access FR. FWIW.
Please excuse. Reference should have been reference.
Good to see you........
I did a quick write up of the answer here in a later post.
I can get to looking at things too far from the inside, it seems.
Oh... Okay...
Thanks...
FYI — here’s what JimRob said about the recent FR slowdown...
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To: JudyinCanada
John shifted some things around to better balance the load on our servers, reconfigured some system settings and kicked off a bunch of search engine spiderbots that were killing us.
98 posted on 01/24/2009 10:25:04 PM PST by Jim Robinson
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2171131/posts?page=98#98
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Thank you.
I should say that the ITR is a reporting site.
I’ve been experiencing a ‘changing’ FR site today and yesterday, too. The ITR site gives good, factual statistics to help explain traffic.
Virginia huh? Lack of bandwidth?
I’m visualising the entire Obama staff holed up in the WH situation room.
Surrounded by streaming video feeds from ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, Headline News, and every liberal media website in America. Blackberries all logged onto syncophant media sites.
A wide table on one side of the room, with unwashed leftists in a row, trolling Palin-bashing threads on FR, but mostly posting endless anti-Rush Limbaugh screeds at DUH. One after the other.
Playing and replaying on monitors around the room, streaming video of every in the tank, fawning suck-up piece our so-called media are running 24/7. While everyone in the room hums the tune to kumbaya in unison, tilting back and forth slowly murmering at the screens, as if one:
“Monitors monitors on the wall ... who’s the fairest administration of them all??”.
What you are saying is Vienna is the end of the internet?
(Sorry, corny, I know)
Thanks for the link. Even though I do not understand it, it is a good reference.
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For example, this Internet traffic report site is currently showing that the site brdr-dmz-uunet.simsware.com is down, which is a site just down the road from me in Plano, Texas. Now it happens that other simsware.com sites are up, and I am confident that Texas is doing just fine. Apparently that one brdr-dmz-uunet computer at Simsware is offline, which makes no difference whatsoever to me.
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