Trains' on-line blogs, forums, etc. seem to be taking a long time to load. It reminds me of dial-up. I connect with DSL. Is anyone else experiencing the same problem?
No. Instant loading for me today. But sometimes the forums are very slow.
I have periodic "LOS" where the Trains forum sites (this one, Classic Trains, or MR) will not load or stop responding, but other Internet traffic (notably RyPN Interchange) continues to update just fine.
I have in the past 15 minutes been told I didn't have 'authority' to post a reply to a thread here, could not find a link to log out, and had to go in, clear cookies, and log in from scratch just to be sure I hadn't been restricted or banned.
I think this means they're tinkering with the code, probably for corporate-strategic reasons, perhaps to fix the 'e-mail notifications' link code. (I note that going to 'settings' for my profile let me check and uncheck notifications, but I don't know whether that actually produces notifications at the e-mail account).
Although I wish they would provide some sort of status message when they are working, I can't fault that they are trying. Quite the opposite is happening with Yahoo Groups in the next month!
Mine's working fine as well today.
However, when I'm faced with slow loading on the Kalmbach sites this is what I do. Usually I go in using Google Chrome. If the site seems to take a long time loading I'll try Microsoft. If the site comes up quickly then I assume Google's having a problem. However, if the site's slow to load with Microsoft then I'll try another website, anyone's website. It THAT comes up quickly with Google Chrome and Microsoft then I know the problem's on Kalmbach's end and there's nothing I can do about it.
Kalmbach does seem to have issues from time to time.
I noticed this too this morning. About 20 minutes ago it worked fine, then it became slow and refused to load, and as of right now it is working fine.
Someone must have just put the fire out.....
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I experience times when the Trains software is slow to respond - slow to the point that I get a 'timeout message'. If I access another web site, that site comes right up. After a some period of time 15 - 30 minutes when I come back to Trains it will load right up - if it will load up again to access and/or post in a thread can be an adventure at times.
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Flintlock76 Mine's working fine as well today. However, when I'm faced with slow loading on the Kalmbach sites this is what I do. Usually I go in using Google Chrome. If the site seems to take a long time loading I'll try Microsoft. If the site comes up quickly then I assume Google's having a problem. However, if the site's slow to load with Microsoft then I'll try another website, anyone's website. It THAT comes up quickly with Google Chrome and Microsoft then I know the problem's on Kalmbach's end and there's nothing I can do about it. Kalmbach does seem to have issues from time to time.
I do the same. I think the fault may lie in whatever server(s) Kalmbach is using.
While Ping and Tracert aren't as useful as they used to be (the protocols are blocked by many routers to deter DDOS attacks), I did get through 11 hops on a tracert before I started getting consistant timeouts. Ping was useless.
That means my trace travelled through 11 routers, any one of which could be oversubscribed, or just plain busy. And there may be more hops between me and the Trains site.
My trace travelled through Syracuse, Albany, and Newark that I could definitely pick out.
Which means the Trains website might be running along just fine, but the path to it may be somehow constricted. This may be more noticable at times of peak Internet usage, like first thing in the morning when everyone is checking their email or during big streaming events such as football games.
Another possible hang-up is one's own computer. If you fire up "Task Manager" (CNTL-ALT-DEL, then also select "All Tasks") you might be surprised at all the stuff that's running on your computer. Some background programs can be real resource hogs.
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Had some problems as well. Have to wonder if the bad weather is causing more internect traffic than usual there by overloading some routers ?
JPS1Is anyone else experiencing the same problem?
Every few months this place starts loading superslow for me.
I then go in and nuke all my cookies, and 9 times out of 10 that fixes it.
Convicted One JPS1 Is anyone else experiencing the same problem? Every few months this place starts loading superslow for me. I then go in and nuke all my cookies, and 9 times out of 10 that fixes it.
JPS1 Is anyone else experiencing the same problem?
Milk with those nuked cookies?
I never nuke my cookies, it melts the chocolate chips. I use CCleaner to delete cookies; that program (Free) lets me set some cookies aside to not be deleted so I don't lose some "permanent" log-ins (kept in cookies). I run it every night just before I turn my PC off for the day.
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Pkgs.
Most people call it "clearing the cache" vs removing the cookies. A cookie is a file on your laptop that identifies yourself as you when you login. Discussion Forum website software is usually subdivided onto seperate servers. So the website your looking at is exactly duplicated on multiple servers. Load balancing of traffic will assign you to a server at login. So when you login and experience slowness and easy fix would be to logout and login again hoping for a more responsive server. If you chose STAY LOGGED IN, well then your screwed with whatever choice you are given until you logout and back in again.
Across the software there are different sections which require another login. Your not prompted for the login if your already logged in because if the cookie is available it passes the contents of the cookie as a subsitute to requiring you to login again. When that handover is interrupted it appears as if something kicked you out and your prompted to login again. So for example the Discussion Forums part of this website is completely seperate from the subscription sales and content portion of the website. Discussion Forums are passed your login via cookie contents after you login to the website. Does that make sense?
How do I know this? I spent 4-6 years as a Army Forums Moderator on Military.com (MONSTER.COM) where I became familar with more than one Discussion Forums package as they were back then looking at several packages. I think they finally settled on JIVE software but I left before the decision was made so I have no clue. It was a great gig though, some people in the Pentagon including the Special Forces guy that monitors Social Media for breaches of the Confidentiality agreement that Special Forces Soldiers sign. He was a Major in rank (actually more than one guy but he was assigned to monitor Military.com). Which in Pentagon terms Major is a Private. Also, met one or two Medal of Honor awardees and a few Silver Star holders and well I could talk with Soldiers while they were in Afghanistan and Iraq. One time was conversing with an Army Medic (68W) while he was under mortar fire in Afghanistan.....which was interesting.
Some people say Social Media is crap but there are some pretty cool aspects of it.
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CMStPnPMost people call it "clearing the cache" vs removing the cookies.
To make this statement a little clearer, CMStP&P isn't saying 'clearing the cache' is the same thing as deleting the cookies. They are completely different things, although in some 'browser maintenance' functions the caches will be cleared during the same operation that deletes cookies.
And 'nuking the cookies' is a bit like the analogy I used during the collaborative ocular-melanoma retrospective study for treatment of that cancer at the time: you're driving down the street in your Audi and notice that 'the throttle is stuck and the engine has started racing' causing that dreaded unanticipated acceleration. Here comes a stop sign. What do you do? Hey, whip out a .50cal and shoot at the engine block through the firewall!
Nuking 'all' the cookies is like that. As is 'rebooting the OS' any time there is some weird developed configuration error. Expedient as hell, and after your ears stop ringing from the howitzer the fly is certainly dead.
A better approach is to go into whatever page your browser provides to 'edit' cookies, find the ones that are specific to the Trains sites, and just remove those selectively. (While you are in there, clear out all the obvious tracking and 'advertising' cookies that are slowing your browsing down and rewarding the leeches...)
Piriform CCleaner is notorious for happily and indiscriminately deleting stuff that may turn out to be important to you, like saved logins you no longer remember. In my opinion anyone using it should uncheck everything you don't KNOW you want nuked ... or don't specifically recognize the meaning or function of. (You can always run it again later, probably from one of the near-continually-revised versions they keep prompting you about downloading, and 'check them back' when you know.)
There's usually an explicit 'clear cache' keyboard shortcut command (for example, Ctrl-F5) that will get rid of cache corruption issues without requiring explicit cookie deletion. That is part of the 'browser ritual' that people sometimes follow ... just as arcane and just as formalistic as any ritual in religion ... when there are "problems".
I just select clear browser history and check the option to clear all items. Yes it is a little bothersome as you have to establish past settings again but it also ensures you do a clean sweep and get everything and it is fast.
Flintlock76 Mine's working fine as well today. However, when I'm faced with slow loading on the Kalmbach sites this is what I do. Usually I go in using Google Chrome. If the site seems to take a long time loading I'll try Microsoft. If the site comes up quickly then I assume Google's having a problem. However, if the site's slow to load with Microsoft then I'll try another website, anyone's website. It THAT comes up quickly with Google Chrome and Microsoft then I know the problem's on Kalmbach's end and there's nothing I can do about it. "Kalmbach does seem to have issues from time to time."
"Kalmbach does seem to have issues from time to time."
I've long been convinced that the software companies carefully monitor what features are most used in their programs - then they delete those features or bury them deep in the next "upgrade..."
tree68I've long been convinced that the software companies carefully monitor what features are most used in their programs - then they delete those features or bury them deep in the next "upgrade..."
That is similar to what the local grocery store chain does... If I tell them I like a particular product, they will stop carrying it. If I write to the company that produces it to see where else I might be able to buy it, they stop making it!
Semper VaporoThat is similar to what the local grocery store chain does... If I tell them I like a particular product, they will stop carrying it. If I write to the company that produces it to see where else I might be able to buy it, they stop making it!
Me too! Best to just not tip your hand and hope they don't notice...
OvermodNuking 'all' the cookies is like that. As is 'rebooting the OS' any time there is some weird developed configuration error. Expedient as hell, and after your ears stop ringing from the howitzer the fly is certainly dead.
I don't mind having to relog-in to my forums afterwards. It's a small price to pay for the benefit of employing "the fire that purifies". Especially since it seems to work.
But then I've been known to sort out thorny configuration problems starting by running fdisk.
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