Slow Website Speeds

[travislopes]

Am I the only one experiencing slow speeds with Revision3? The forums work fine, but the site itself (and occasionally the downloads) has been taking a minute to load each page.

[high6]

Yes, the flash players take like 30 seconds to buffer for me, and the pages are loading slowly.

[samureye]

How slow is slow on the downloads?

[high6]

How slow is slow on the downloads?

50-60KB

1 hour to download the hd 0,o

[samureye]

What connection are you on? OS? Browser? What show and episode? Can you give any screenshot? What are you used to getting?

[marc57]

Same here, I'm on Vista sp1 using IE and using cable with a 6Mbps connection. All other pages I go to work fine. I was trying to download Systm and it was going to take over an hour.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/259527034.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

[high6]

What connection are you on? OS? Browser? What show and episode? Can you give any screenshot? What are you used to getting?

24mbps

Windows xp sp3

Firefox 2

System (latest)

no

500+ KBps

[thearchangel]

I have noticed a big change in the site and if i watch a video on the site.
and I have even noticed it when i d/l with miro i would say about a 30% drop

[chuckles]

There was an issue with DNS which is now fixed. Is anyone still seeing slow load on the pages?

-chuckles-

[high6]

There was an issue with DNS which is now fixed. Is anyone still seeing slow load on the pages?

-chuckles-

Nope, seems to all good.

Thanks :D

[oss]

General website speed is still slow and the steams keep buffering.

[chuckles]

General website speed is still slow and the steams keep buffering.

Could you do a traceroute to www.revision3.com and also a traceroute to bitcast-a.bitgravity.com ?

Thanks.

-chuckles-

[travislopes]

The website speed is fine, but now I'm getting under 100 KB/s on the video downloads.

traceroute to bitcast-a.bitgravity.com (208.67.237.237), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 2.346 ms 1.868 ms 2.763 ms
2 10.101.16.1 (10.101.16.1) 12.393 ms 10.194 ms 11.619 ms
3 gig10-0-0-2182.tampfledc-rtr2.tampflrdc.rr.com (65.32.28.122) 15.074 ms 14.014 ms 16.371 ms
4 ge2-2-0.tampfledc-rtr4.tampflrdc.rr.com (65.32.13.66) 11.690 ms 11.678 ms 12.324 ms
5 te-3-1.car2.Tampa1.Level3.net (4.79.146.1) 12.492 ms 14.746 ms 11.159 ms
6 ae-11-11.car1.Tampa1.Level3.net (4.69.133.45) 12.620 ms 16.284 ms 21.982 ms
7 ae-5-5.ebr2.Atlanta2.Level3.net (4.69.133.50) 34.435 ms 34.820 ms 36.608 ms
8 ae-63-60.ebr3.Atlanta2.Level3.net (4.69.138.4) 41.792 ms ae-73-70.ebr3.Atlanta2.Level3.net (4.69.138.20) 40.228 ms 37.727 ms
9 ae-2.ebr1.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.132.86) 55.814 ms 51.602 ms 54.456 ms
10 ae-71-71.csw2.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.134) 55.896 ms 53.106 ms 54.837 ms
11 ae-2-79.edge1.Washington3.Level3.net (4.68.17.75) 50.009 ms 44.576 ms 45.146 ms
12 65.59.88.210 (65.59.88.210) 46.265 ms if-9-0-0.core4.AEQ-Ashburn.teleglobe.net (216.6.42.33) 43.792 ms 65.59.88.210 (65.59.88.210) 45.067 ms
13 216.6.51.50 (216.6.51.50) 55.409 ms 48.926 ms 53.571 ms
14 206.82.139.18 (206.82.139.18) 44.530 ms 44.835 ms 44.328 ms

[chuckles]

The website speed is fine, but now I'm getting under 100 KB/s on the video downloads.

travislopes,

Are you still having slow download speeds?

-chuckles-

[reggplant]

I've been getting awful download speeds for any of the episodes this week, average speeds below 100kB/s. I normally get about 1.3mB/s+ on my speeds and my connection can manage 2.4mB/s (see here (http://www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk/results.php?t=1208460688&v=4105305)). Whats happening is the traffic is spiking to 100-400kB/s for a fraction of a second then nothing for about half a sec.

http://revision3.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=549&stc=1&d=1208458832

[maynza]

I have been noticing a huge drop off in my download speed. I used to download at full speed ~100kb/s now I am down to:

http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/8476/49779380bg9.png
Here are my trace routes.
Tracing route to www.revision3.com [209.237.233.179]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 3 ms 2 ms 1 ms 192.168.5.1
3 75 ms 15 ms 14 ms 69-57-112-1.nefcom.net [69.57.112.1]
4 69 ms 70 ms 69 ms 202.GigabitEthernet5-0.GW1.ORL4.ALTER.NET [157.1
30.87.213]
5 68 ms 71 ms 277 ms 183.at-1-0-0.XR2.HOU7.ALTER.NET [152.63.98.118]

6 205 ms 67 ms 72 ms 0.so-1-0-3.XT1.HOU7.ALTER.NET [152.63.102.21]
7 107 ms 109 ms 333 ms 0.so-3-0-0.XL1.SJC7.ALTER.NET [152.63.0.150]
8 232 ms 183 ms 110 ms POS6-0-0.GW4.SJC7.ALTER.NET [152.63.48.241]
9 206 ms 237 ms 177 ms wbsconnect-gw.customer.alter.net [63.65.131.166]

10 267 ms 144 ms 127 ms Vlan904.br01-200p-sfo.unitedlayer.com [209.237.2
24.209]
11 113 ms 159 ms 111 ms vlan518.cr01-200p-sfo.unitedlayer.com [207.7.159
.66]
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
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25 * * * Request timed out.
26 * * * Request timed out.
27 * * * Request timed out.
28 * * * Request timed out.
29 * * * Request timed out.
30 * * * Request timed out.

Trace complete.

Tracing route to bitcast-a.bitgravity.com [208.67.237.237]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 3 ms 2 ms 1 ms 192.168.5.1
3 15 ms 146 ms 15 ms 69-57-112-1.nefcom.net [69.57.112.1]
4 102 ms 66 ms 72 ms 202.GigabitEthernet5-0.GW1.ORL4.ALTER.NET [157.1
30.87.213]
5 161 ms 68 ms 305 ms 183.at-1-0-0.XR2.HOU7.ALTER.NET [152.63.98.118]

6 160 ms 106 ms 127 ms 0.so-1-0-3.XT1.HOU7.ALTER.NET [152.63.102.21]
7 79 ms 270 ms 78 ms 0.so-6-1-1.XT3.DFW9.ALTER.NET [152.63.97.78]
8 78 ms 296 ms 77 ms 0.so-6-0-0.BR1.DFW9.ALTER.NET [152.63.96.73]
9 76 ms 74 ms 203 ms if-1-3.core2.DTX-Dallas.teleglobe.net [66.198.2.
5]
10 136 ms 78 ms 126 ms if-0-0.core1.DTX-Dallas.teleglobe.net [66.198.2.
2]
11 194 ms 92 ms 86 ms 209.58.47.38
12 75 ms 247 ms 77 ms bitcast-a.bitgravity.com [208.67.237.237]

Trace complete.

[travislopes]

After watching the video downloads over the past few days, I can say that my speeds are back to normal.

[maynza]

Yeah I can't even watch diggnation this week because it is going at 10kb/s

[nickolsen8390]

I am also having download speed problems. I'm on Bright House Networks Business class Cable. Which is 10Mb/s Down and 1Mb/s Up. I use to get fast downloads now i get about ~114Kb/s.
I emailed support@bitgravity.com to see what they say. Also the site has been pretty slow.

Here are the Tracert's

www.revision3.com
C:\Users\Nick>tracert www.revision3.com

Tracing route to www.revision3.com [209.237.233.179]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms gateway.141networks.com [192.168.0.1]
2 8 ms 8 ms 7 ms bhnbc.141networks.com [10.105.64.1]
3 9 ms 14 ms 8 ms bhn.fl.rr.biz.com [24.95.231.88]
4 14 ms 13 ms 19 ms bhn.fl.rr.biz.com [24.95.228.153]
5 23 ms 23 ms 24 ms ge-1-2-0.cr0.atl20.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.84]
6 41 ms 39 ms 39 ms ae-3-0.cr0.dfw10.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.36]
7 42 ms 41 ms 39 ms ae-1-0.pr0.dfw10.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.179]
8 45 ms 45 ms 45 ms 66.109.9.214
9 77 ms 79 ms 81 ms UNITED-LAYER.ae0.403.ar3.LAX1.gblx.net [64.215.8
0.234]
10 93 ms 91 ms 92 ms Vlan802.br02-200p-sfo.unitedlayer.com [209.237.2
24.137]
11 89 ms 91 ms 97 ms vlan519.cr01-200p-sfo.unitedlayer.com [207.7.159
.86]
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 ^C



And bitcast-a.bitgravity.com

C:\Users\Nick>tracert bitcast-a.bitgravity.com

Tracing route to bitcast-a.bitgravity.com [208.67.237.237]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms gateway.141networks.com [192.168.0.1]
2 10 ms 14 ms 8 ms bhnbc.141networks.com [10.105.64.1]
3 19 ms 11 ms 10 ms bhn.fl.rr.biz.com [24.95.231.88]
4 18 ms 25 ms 14 ms bhn.fl.rr.biz.com [24.95.228.153]
5 13 ms 13 ms 28 ms te-3-3.car1.orlando1.level3.net [4.79.116.145]
6 29 ms 35 ms 39 ms ae-6-6.ebr1.atlanta2.level3.net [4.69.133.78]
7 26 ms 35 ms 36 ms ae-63-60.ebr3.atlanta2.level3.net [4.69.138.4]
8 36 ms 35 ms 60 ms ae-2.ebr1.washington1.level3.net [4.69.132.86]
9 42 ms 39 ms 49 ms ae-91-91.csw4.washington1.level3.net [4.69.134.1
42]
10 36 ms 41 ms 41 ms ae-4-99.edge1.washington3.level3.net [4.68.17.20
3]
11 38 ms 43 ms 57 ms if-9-0-0.core4.AEQ-Ashburn.teleglobe.net [216.6.
42.33]
12 40 ms 51 ms 55 ms 206.82.139.13
13 39 ms 40 ms 47 ms 206.82.139.18
14 38 ms 42 ms 37 ms bitcast-a.bitgravity.com [208.67.237.237]

Trace complete.

[nickolsen8390]

Sorry for the long post above. And for this long post.
Bitgravity Got back to me with this message. So the other Person i saw that was in tampa is most likely having this same problem, Because he went through the same Level 3 hops, minus the tampa ones that i do route to.

Nick,

It appears that Level3.net is having some issues on their network in
Washington and Atlanta as well as at their hand-off to Road-Runner in
Orlando. I've observed a significant number of dropped packets via mtr
towards the ip you provided, some of the results are as follows:

7. ae-2.ebr3.Atlanta2.Level3.net
2.6% 13 500 18.1 20.3 14.6
4.5 31.4
8. ae-71-70.ebr1.Atlanta2.Level3.net
0.4% 2 500 16.0 20.5 14.9
4.5 36.9
9. ae-6-6.car1.Orlando1.Level3.net
3.8% 19 500 23.5 36.3 23.2
38.4 243.7
10. ROADRUNNER.car1.Orlando1.Level3.net
0.0% 0 500 24.0 24.3 23.5
2.4 54.2
11. gig0-0-0.orldflmbhe-rtr1.cfl.rr.com
1.4% 7 500 28.7 28.7 28.1
1.7 50.1

[nickolsen8390]

The problem has been fixed. I'm back to ~1500kb/s downloads. As i posted above it must have just been a problem with level 3.

[maynza]

fixed on my end too.

[high6]

Slow speeds are back.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/264063522.png (http://www.speedtest.net)
(my internet speeds)

Max I am getting on diggnation is 40-65kbps. Lowest is 5kbps.

[travislopes]

Slow speeds are back.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/264063522.png (http://www.speedtest.net)
(my internet speeds)

Max I am getting on diggnation is 40-65kbps. Lowest is 5kbps.
Same here.

My speed test:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/264068004.png

[defect]

When i experience slow download speeds i usually switch bitcast-a to -b or -c which seem to be much faster for me. The difference is several MB/s. Is there something wrong with downloading from -b och -c?
I leave the podtrac-part of the URL intact because i'm guessing that podtrac keeps track of your amount of downloads and that's how you get advertisers.

Also, on another, slightly off-topic note. How come there are no seeds on the torrents? I've been seeding diggnation since i got it and so far i've uploaded it almost 15 times so there is demand.

[marc57]

Still having VERY slow download speeds, Here's my traceroute


Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6001]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Windows\system32>tracert www.revision3.com

Tracing route to www.revision3.com [209.237.233.179]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 6 ms 7 ms 7 ms 10.226.64.1
2 6 ms 7 ms 7 ms pkbgsysc02-gex2-0-0.atw.sta.suddenlink.net [66.7
6.225.177]
3 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms chrmosrc02-gex3-3.atw.sta.suddenlink.net [66.76.
225.165]
4 37 ms 37 ms 37 ms s66-76-168-13.bssr.suddenlink.net [66.76.168.13]

5 35 ms 35 ms 35 ms unknown.hwng.net [69.16.190.205]
6 36 ms 35 ms 35 ms eq-ash.wvfiber.net [206.223.115.47]
7 102 ms 101 ms 101 ms atl-ten3-1-ash-ten3-1.wvfiber.net [66.216.1.157]

8 59 ms 60 ms 79 ms nsh-ten4-1-atl-ten3-2.wvfiber.net [64.127.130.58
]
9 99 ms 99 ms 100 ms la-ten1-1-nsh-ten4-2.wvfiber.net [66.186.197.109
]
10 103 ms 103 ms 103 ms 66.186.192.10
11 109 ms 109 ms 109 ms Vlan801.br02-200p-sfo.unitedlayer.com [209.237.2
24.161]
12 111 ms 111 ms 111 ms vlan519.cr01-200p-sfo.unitedlayer.com [207.7.159
.86]
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 * * * Request timed out.
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20 * * * Request timed out.
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25 * * * Request timed out.
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29 * * * Request timed out.
30 * * * Request timed out.

Trace complete.

C:\Windows\system32>tracert bitcast-a.bitgravity.com

Tracing route to bitcast-a.bitgravity.com [208.67.237.237]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 7 ms 7 ms 6 ms 10.226.64.1
2 6 ms 7 ms 7 ms pkbgsysc01-gex1-0-0.atw.sta.suddenlink.net [66.7
6.225.173]
3 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms chrmosrc01-gex3-3.atw.sta.suddenlink.net [66.76.
225.161]
4 36 ms 35 ms 37 ms s66-76-168-9.bssr.suddenlink.net [66.76.168.9]
5 36 ms 35 ms 34 ms ashbosr03-10gex1-1.atw.sta.suddenlink.net [66.76
.219.34]
6 33 ms 35 ms 33 ms asn19108.e2-9.core1.iad1.bitgravity.com [208.67.
234.129]
7 36 ms 37 ms 35 ms bitcast-a.bitgravity.com [208.67.237.237]

Trace complete.

C:\Windows\system32>

[dmz00]

Yea man me 2 its really bad but the fourms are fine in speed and i posted a thread with a screenshot of what its like and what my download speed is

[travislopes]

When i experience slow download speeds i usually switch bitcast-a to -b or -c which seem to be much faster for me. The difference is several MB/s. Is there something wrong with downloading from -b och -c?
I tried this out and the same thing happened to me (greater speeds with b and c). I contacted Chuck about this and here's what he had to say:

With regards to bitcast-[abc], it could be several reasons such as server load, network load, or location of where you're grabbing the the files from. Bitgravity utilizes anycast (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anycast). So although we all might be trying to reach the same IP, the actual locations and servers are different.

[jayunsplanet]

I've been having the same problem for the last 2 weeks.

Here's an example of a download from bitcast a and bitcast c

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e249/jayunsplanet/Rev3DloadSpeeds.jpg

Stinks that I have to manually go in and change the link to get decent speed.

http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mov/bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/revision3/web/diggnation/0148/diggnation--0148--2008-05-01mightier--hd.h264.mov

http://bitcast-c.bitgravity.com/revision3/web/diggnation/0148/diggnation--0148--2008-05-01mightier--hd.h264.mov

[dudinatrix]

Just chiming in that for a couple weeks now I've had the 50kbs speed for my rev3 downloads. It makes streaming on my PS3 unbearable, and my PC doesn't cope well either. Changing the URL from -a to -c seems to help. Really hope this gets fixed soon.

[jrblaze]

I have been having slow download speeds for the last week (maybe 2) from Rev3. I am downloading at average speeds between 50 KB/s - 100 KB/s. Before I was download at speeds between 300 KB/s - 480 KB/s and all my other downloads from other places have been hitting those numbers.

I did a trace route to www.revision3.com and bitcast-a.bitgravity.com .

Here are my results:

traceroute to www.revision3.com (209.237.233.179), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets

*1* 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1)* 1.215 ms* 0.403 ms* 0.280 ms
*2* 10.116.32.1 (10.116.32.1)* 7.298 ms* 9.034 ms* 6.968 ms
*3* gig3-2.730.albynyqby-rtr01.nyroc.rr.com (24.29.33.17)* 14.683 ms* 17.292 ms* 16.253 ms
*4* pos1-0.albynysat-rtr02.nyroc.rr.com (24.29.34.137)* 21.167 ms* 16.721 ms* 15.600 ms
*5* gig6-0-0.albynywav-rtr02.nyroc.rr.com (24.29.37.33)* 16.765 ms* 16.988 ms* 16.758 ms
*6* * ge-7-1-0.syrcnycsr-rtr03.nyroc.rr.com (24.29.39.25)* 25.691 ms* 26.711 ms
*7* ae-3-0.cr0.chi10.tbone.rr.com (66.109.6.72)* 40.349 ms* 40.941 ms* 41.315 ms
*8* ae-0-0.pr0.chi10.tbone.rr.com (66.109.6.153)* 41.344 ms* 40.890 ms* 41.749 ms
*9* 66.109.9.202 (66.109.9.202)* 41.961 ms* 74.783 ms* 41.801 ms
10* UNITED-LAYER.ge-6-2-0.404.ar4.sfo1.gblx.net (64.214.131.174)* 104.806 ms* 94.087 ms* 94.604 ms
11* Vlan527.cr02-200p-sfo.unitedlayer.com (207.7.159.46)* 93.535 ms* 94.802 ms* 92.388 ms
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traceroute to bitcast-a.bitgravity.com (208.67.237.237), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets

*1* 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1)* 1.892 ms* 0.406 ms* 0.270 ms
*2* 10.116.32.1 (10.116.32.1)* 7.306 ms* 8.266 ms* 7.146 ms
*3* gig3-2.730.albynyqby-rtr01.nyroc.rr.com (24.29.33.17)* 14.739 ms* 15.942 ms* 14.803 ms
*4* pos1-0.albynysat-rtr02.nyroc.rr.com (24.29.34.137)* 27.281 ms* 18.081 ms* 18.794 ms
*5* gig6-0-0.albynywav-rtr02.nyroc.rr.com (24.29.37.33)* 18.858 ms* 29.726 ms* 24.752 ms
*6* ge-7-1-0.syrcnycsr-rtr03.nyroc.rr.com (24.29.39.25)* 38.726 ms* 25.133 ms* 23.981 ms
*7* te-3-3.car2.Cleveland1.Level3.net (64.156.67.13)* 54.071 ms te-3-2.car2.Cleveland1.Level3.net (64.156.66.41)* 37.815 ms te-3-1.car2.Cleveland1.Level3.net (4.78.59.45)* 54.809 ms
*8* ae-2-6.bar2.Cleveland1.Level3.net (4.69.132.202)* 54.065 ms* 37.590 ms* 37.835 ms
*9* ae-0-11.bar1.Cleveland1.Level3.net (4.69.136.185)* 53.995 ms* 37.363 ms* 38.073 ms
10* ae-6-6.ebr1.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.136.190)* 54.403 ms* 50.152 ms* 37.339 ms
11* ae-91-91.csw4.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.142)* 54.747 ms* 37.912 ms* 37.815 ms
12* ae-4-99.edge1.Washington3.Level3.net (4.68.17.203)* 54.400 ms* 39.867 ms* 37.695 ms
13* 65.59.88.210 (65.59.88.210)* 54.313 ms* 37.896 ms if-9-0-0.core4.AEQ-Ashburn.teleglobe.net (216.6.42.33)* 37.867 ms
14* Vlan75.icore1.AEQ-Ashburn.teleglobe.net (216.6.51.50)* 54.235 ms* 47.818 ms* 37.582 ms
15* ix-10-3.icore1.AEQ-Ashburn.teleglobe.net (206.82.139.18)* 54.778 ms* 39.746 ms* 39.813 ms
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I did also did a speed test and here were my results:

http://www.speedtest.net/result/268305012.png

Hopefully this information is helpful.

[high6]

Well this only seems to happen around a new episode so I am guessing its because so many people are using bitcast-a.bitgravity.com that it goes really slow. Although doesn't rev3 have something to switches servers if 1 server has a lot of people?