120M : Play.com Issue

[alanbjames]

I am attempting to view Play.com which is now http://www.rakuten.co.uk/.

The site is absolutely dreadfully slow loading up, it took 15 seconds to start to load the page, i thought it was DNS and changed but still the same, can anyone else take a look and see if they have the same issue please. Thanks.


C:\Users\AlansWin8PC>ping rakuten.co.uk

Pinging rakuten.co.uk [133.237.17.195] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 133.237.17.195: bytes=32 time=314ms TTL=44
Reply from 133.237.17.195: bytes=32 time=305ms TTL=44
Request timed out.
Reply from 133.237.17.195: bytes=32 time=302ms TTL=44

Ping statistics for 133.237.17.195:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 3, Lost = 1 (25% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 302ms, Maximum = 314ms, Average = 307ms

C:\Users\AlansWin8PC>tracert rakuten.co.uk

Tracing route to rakuten.co.uk [133.237.17.195]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 9 ms 10 ms 8 ms cpc7-cwma8-2-0-gw.7-3.cable.virginm.net [86.21.1
82.1]
3 13 ms 9 ms 8 ms swan-core-2b-xe-010-0.network.virginmedia.net [8
0.0.255.185]
4 13 ms 14 ms 36 ms brnt-bb-1c-ae23-0.network.virginmedia.net [62.25
3.175.134]
5 50 ms 47 ms 45 ms ae10-xcr1.lnd.cw.net [195.2.9.149]
6 45 ms 38 ms 40 ms ae6-xcr1.lsw.cw.net [195.2.25.29]
7 53 ms 48 ms 47 ms ae2-xcr1.lnt.cw.net [195.2.30.54]
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 105 ms 104 ms 107 ms ldn001bb11.IIJ.Net [58.138.98.142]
10 230 ms 228 ms 232 ms tky001bb08.IIJ.Net [58.138.98.133]
11 227 ms 232 ms 228 ms tky001bf01.IIJ.Net [58.138.82.125]
12 230 ms 231 ms 234 ms tky001ip56.IIJ.Net [58.138.80.102]
13 233 ms 231 ms 232 ms 202.232.9.10
14 314 ms 310 ms 316 ms 202.72.48.33
15 304 ms 301 ms 306 ms 202.72.48.122
16 318 ms 310 ms * 133.237.0.2
17 298 ms 301 ms 302 ms rakuten.co.uk [133.237.17.195]

Trace complete.

[SnoopZ]

Loaded instantly for me even with my poor TBB graph tonight.

[Bofrok]

Instant loading here also (North London), tried a few sections of the site with no problems.

Slow loading pages on the site from North Leeds.

[alanbjames]

mmmmmmmm i wonder if Virgin are having a few difficulties if it seems to affect North Leeds also.

[progers]

No problem here in Nuneaton

[General Maximus]

Loads fine for me in Lincoln. Sad to see Play go after all these years, you would have thought they would keep the brand name for the public and for the sake of easy navigation. Are you going to go to play.com or rakuten.co.uk? It is hardly something you are going to roll off the tip of your tongue.

[heero_yuy]

A little slow here, about 10 seconds to completely load the intro page. I've had flyers from Rakuten for a long time formally from play.com.

Rakuten, Inc. (楽天株式会社 Rakuten Kabushiki-gaisha?) (TYO: 4755) is a Japanese electronic commerce and Internet company based in Tokyo, Japan. Its B2B2C[3] e-commerce platform Rakuten Ichiba is the largest e-commerce site in Japan and among the world’s largest by sales.[4]

Wiki

I thought it sounded Japanese.

BTW if you want see the kana/kanji properly in the quote you need the optional asian font set loaded.

[Hom3r]

Instant load hear in CM20

[horseman]

Brighton: Safari 7.1.5 OSX 10.9.5 <10secs

Just tried again from North Leeds - all fine now (each page takes 1-2 seconds to load).

They were play247.com when I joined.

I gave up using them a long time ago, so wont miss them.

[alanbjames]

Site loads fine now.

Paul, i wont buy any hardware from them after they sent me a hard disk drive in just a padded envolope and wondered why it didnt work.