Connectivity Issues

[martin perman 1Participant @martinperman1]

Is it only with Tablets as I'm having no problem with my laptop or notebook.

Martin P

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

No its slow on my PC

[Enough!Participant @enough]

(Highly) subjectively, I don't find it any slower than it's been for the last couple of weeks. There was a noticeable drop in speed at that time though, which has continued. On my PC.

Edited By Bandersnatch on 07/12/2014 17:43:14

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Perfectly fine here, as far as I can tell.

Neil

[JohnFParticipant @johnf59703]

I could not get the site to play at all tonight at around 8pm on either iPad Air or my PC with either explorer or chrome, also tried the sister site for wood work, same result. Loaded eventually about 11.30 pm but very slow !

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Similar problems to JohnF, last evening.

Numerous pop-up messages:

"Server not responding"

[original iPad, Safari, iOS 5.1.1]

MichaelG.

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

It was down from about 6.30 for two hours. Must have been a server issue as I could not get any of the other MTM sites to come up. Did e-mail Neil but no reply yet but it looks like he musty have put another 50p in the meter as its all working now.

J

[Thor 🇳🇴Participant @thor]

Jason, I understand that I'm not the only one having trouble with accesssing the ME site. The site didn't respond and now it is very slow. Just tried accessing a forum on the other side of the Atlantic, very fast response.

Thor

[Harry WilkesParticipant @harrywilkes58467]

Seen this scenario before on another well know forum some members didn't have a problem others did then one day the server crashed and everyone was offline for quite a while !!!

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Believe it or not (I don't) MEW is a part time job(!) and last night I was burning the midnight oil on another project.

Fortunately the nature of most of what I do allows me to have the ME website open 90% of the time so I can drop in for 'sanity breaks' whether working on MEW or something else.

Like every website smaller than google/facebook we do have the odd server 'outage', being a forum these are more noticeable than on some other websites as there's nearly always a few folks logged on.

Neil

[NJHParticipant @njh]

Neil

Do you mean that dropping in here is a break from sanity then…?

This site has been very slow during the last week.

Norman

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

It's interesting, I've found it noticeably more stable and a little faster than before the server update.

The problem is the web is not 'deterministic' – one person can get a fast connection and another slow to the same site at the same time, just because they end up having a different route to the server, purely by chance.

Neil

[Ian WelfordParticipant @ianwelford58739]

Could not get access at all last night- up and fine tonight. Thought it was my new PC at first but phones a mate and he also had no access. " Site not available" it said.

ian

[Speedy Builder5Participant @speedybuilder5]

Using a MAC (35 years of Pcs and finally deserted them because of Addware, Malware,Virus, etc etc). Why do MAC users have to use Ctrl return for a new line when Pc users use Return?
BobH

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by Speedy Builder5 on 12/12/2014 16:54:29:

 

Why do MAC users have to use Ctrl return for a new line when Pc users use Return?

.

Bob,

This might help explain …

Different strokes for different folks.

MichaelG.

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 12/12/2014 17:06:54

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

It seems that the problem is related to the hogging of bandwidth by the various MyHobbyStore shops (must be doing well for Christmas!)

A couple of solutions have been looked at with marginal improvements, but Katy the web master has made this announcement today:

"We are hoping to move the magazine websites to a new server without the shop websites this week. I'm hoping this will help with the speed issues. We have some testing to do first, but I will let you know when we're going ahead"

Fingers crossed.

Neil

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Anyone else notice things are faster this morning.

Katy has done the move, the most noticable difference for me is on teh Admin side where it would usually take 20secs from clicking a button for something to happen, now it is instant

If you do notice any problems let us know in this thread

J

[HomeUseParticipant @homeuse]

No faster for me – mind you I never had any problems

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

I certainly have, on my puny connection!

Neil

[NJHParticipant @njh]

Hi Jason

Yes that certainly seems much better.

Norman

[MikeParticipant @mike89748]

Very much faster this morning. Previously, things were so slow I could go and put the kettle on while the site loaded.

[Gordon WParticipant @gordonw]

Seems a bit quicker but never had much trouble, on an old clunky desk top, windows 7 and satelite . I did have to sign-in tho' , first time for years, any connection?

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