25th February

[Mick]

Info:

Server has become extremely busy there has been a massive surge in extra traffic. The server was already busy just when an extra burst of traffic appeared.

[Wayne]

I know, CF is slow on account of the increase in traffic, but although other members can access it fine, i cannot. I have performed a tracert using CMD:

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Wayne Austin>tracert cableforum.co.uk

Tracing route to cableforum.co.uk [87.106.12.139]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms voyager.home [IP Address Removed by poster.]
2 23 ms 24 ms 22 ms anchor-hg-3-l100.router.demon.net [194.159.161.3
4]
3 24 ms 23 ms 23 ms anchor-access-3-v153.router.demon.net [194.159.1
61.97]
4 24 ms 23 ms 24 ms anchor-inside-4-g5-0-1.router.demon.net [194.159
.161.74]
5 23 ms 24 ms 22 ms anchor-border-1-g1-0-0.router.demon.net [194.70.
98.6]
6 23 ms 24 ms 24 ms linx.gw-backbone-a.lon.schlund.net [195.66.224.9
8]
7 38 ms 39 ms 38 ms te-1-3.bb-c.bap.rhr.de.oneandone.net [212.227.12
0.49]
8 39 ms 39 ms 39 ms te-1-1.gw-distp-a.bad.oneandone.net [212.227.116
.220]
9 40 ms 41 ms 41 ms ae-1.gw-prtr-r261-a.bad.oneandone.net [195.20.24
7.53]
10 40 ms 39 ms 38 ms www.cableforum.co.uk [87.106.12.139]

Trace complete.

C:\Documents and Settings\Wayne Austin>

[Paul M]

According to that you are reaching the server ok.

[Salu]

I've not been able to connect to the main site for a while now, at least from work. I get the following...

Network Error (tcp_error)

A communication error occurred: ""
The Web Server may be down, too busy, or experiencing other problems preventing it from responding to requests. You may wish to try again at a later time.

For assistance, contact your network support team.

tracert shows I can get to the cableforum server (87.106.12.139) but it then shows a * from hop 11 onwards....