Swansea proxies

24-10-2006, 19:16

Seems to be some problems with these at moment, anyone else getting time outs and website not loading.
Alternate proxy works ok.

24-10-2006, 19:26

yep had it for a couple of days now!

loads of sites not loading today!!!

simbr · 25-10-2006, 07:03

Have you got any examples?

25-10-2006, 10:15

Quote:

Originally Posted by simbr

Have you got any examples?

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/
http://www.intel.com
http://www.hexus.net/
http://www.digitv-forum.co.uk/
http://www.radiotimes.com

These were the main ones timing out or not loading yesterday although a lot of google search results had same problem, there have been intermittent problems for a while.
This morning all seems ok again, but then most of the problems seem to occur in the evenings.

25-10-2006, 10:25

Also www.ebuyer.co.uk & www.ebuyer.com were not working ohhhh and www.broadbandstuff.co.uk I could list a few but can't be bothered now. I am on a cardiff proxy today and all is well!

25-10-2006, 10:40

Spoke too soon, seems there are still problems with pages not loading properly, using swan cache 6 at present and all works really well, tried cache 3 but that is slow and does not always load pages, cache 1 also.

Delta Whiskey · 25-10-2006, 11:35

I think it's the DNS servers playing up. Try pinging the web address for the 'real' address

Start > Run > cmd to open a DOS box, type ping www.bbc.co.uk and you'll get something like:

Pinging www.bbc.net.uk [212.58.227.77] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 212.58.227.77: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=244
Reply from 212.58.227.77: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=244
Reply from 212.58.227.77: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=244
Reply from 212.58.227.77: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=244

Ping statistics for 212.58.227.77:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 15ms, Maximum = 17ms, Average = 16ms

As you see there's no packet loss, drop 212.58.227.77 into you're browser and see if it loads.

DW

25-10-2006, 12:29

Just pinged radiotimes.com:
Pinging rtwww.bbc.net.uk [212.58.235.200] with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 212.58.235.200:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

point browser to 212.58.235.200 and site eventually appeared, this is without specifying a proxy, after setting a proxy site loads ok.
All the time out problems do go away when i specify a proxy.

simbr · 26-10-2006, 07:25

Note that
a) some sites do not respond to pings, microsoft.com is an example, so you will never get a reply
b) Since pings do not go via the proxies a good ping result does not necessarily mean you can view the site in question if there's a problem with the proxies or vice versa.

---------- Post added at 07:25 ---------- Previous post was at 07:10 ----------

Quote:

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/
http://www.intel.com
http://www.hexus.net/
http://www.digitv-forum.co.uk/
http://www.radiotimes.com
www.broadbandstuff.co.uk
www.ebuyer.com

All currently returning code 200 on all Swansea proxies.

Quote:

www.ebuyer.com

Working OK on all but swan-cache-2, swan-cache-5 and swan-cache-7
ebuyer.co.uk redirects to ebuyer.com anyway however

opelfruitcase · 04-11-2006, 00:09

Swansea proxies have been cack for the last two weeks or so for myself, been manually swapping between swan-cache-1, swan-cache-3, swan-cache-5 and swan-cache-7 - seems strange that the even numbers proxies are causing the problems, odd numbers proxies ok. So long as Swansea never gets a swan-cache-666, bet that will be the worst performing proxy of them all if Swansea ever ends up needing that many, lol!

04-11-2006, 08:28

yea same here problems for a couple of weeks now!

Doubt it will get sorted anytime soon!!!

04-11-2006, 14:19

Quote:

Originally Posted by opelfruitcase

Swansea proxies have been cack for the last two weeks or so for myself, been manually swapping between swan-cache-1, swan-cache-3, swan-cache-5 and swan-cache-7 - seems strange that the even numbers proxies are causing the problems, odd numbers proxies ok. So long as Swansea never gets a swan-cache-666, bet that will be the worst performing proxy of them all if Swansea ever ends up needing that many, lol!

Funny that as i get better results cycling through the even number proxies.
Don't expect any improvement anytime soon as proxies have always been a problem with ntl.

opelfruitcase · 05-11-2006, 01:02

Quote:

Originally Posted by acoolwelshbloke

yea same here problems for a couple of weeks now!

Doubt it will get sorted anytime soon!!!

Well they'd better - the problem seems to be getting worse and worse. I'm currently using the Cardiff proxies, which on a traceroute means my traffic is going from Swansea - Birmingham - Cardiff - Birmingham/Winnerish. Hardly the best option, but it working out better than using Swansea proxies at present.

08-11-2006, 11:13

Seems to be getting worse for me, webpages loading slow if at all!

Can't belive this has not been sorted yet!

08-11-2006, 13:33

Quote:

Originally Posted by acoolwelshbloke

Seems to be getting worse for me, webpages loading slow if at all!

Can't belive this has not been sorted yet!

Same here, switch proxy and that works for a few hours and then nada, so switch to another and so on ad infinitum.