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[chscag]

Just ran Traceroute and Ping. Everything normal, zero packet loss.

I think the holiday gremlins are active or it's the Black Friday weekend woes....

 

[krs]

Well, I bit the bullet, renamed my existing Firefox app "Firefox_old" and downloaded a brand new, pristine version from the Mozilla website -that would surely fix my 'dim icon' (= not accessible) problem.

But no - same issue.
So while I'm scratching my head, literally, trying to decide which Firefox plist or whatever to delete next, I'm playing around with the dim icons and guess what......
At the very right of that row of icons there is a little cogwheel with the description "Toggle BB code" whatever "BB code" is.
Turns out clicking on that changes the row of icons from being "accessible" (normal) and "not accessible" (dimmed).
So all the rebooting the Mac, restarting Firefox and re-downloading Firefox were useless exercises.
What does "Toggle BB code" mean and why is that option there in the first place?

 

[IWT]

This is my Traceroute stats:

I have no idea what they mean, but it might help you guys:

Traceroute has started…

traceroute to mac-forums.com (192.124.249.5), 64 hops max, 72 byte packets
1 192.168.1.254 (192.168.1.254) 0.913 ms 0.598 ms 0.450 ms
2 172.16.13.53 (172.16.13.53) 4.442 ms 4.083 ms 4.433 ms
3 * 31.55.186.177 (31.55.186.177) 11.879 ms 11.359 ms
4 31.55.186.176 (31.55.186.176) 11.495 ms 11.911 ms 11.763 ms
5 core3-hu0-16-0-1.faraday.ukcore.bt.net (195.99.127.196) 11.782 ms 11.206 ms 11.551 ms
6 peer7-et-4-0-0.telehouse.ukcore.bt.net (194.72.16.120) 11.964 ms 12.005 ms 11.798 ms
7 166-49-214-194.gia.bt.net (166.49.214.194) 11.406 ms 11.704 ms 11.614 ms
8 166-49-214-191.gia.bt.net (166.49.214.191) 30.425 ms 27.995 ms 12.096 ms
9 et-4-3-0.cr0-lon9.ip4.gtt.net (89.149.138.33) 15.220 ms 12.788 ms 12.241 ms
10 ip4.gtt.net (46.33.85.122) 12.098 ms 12.382 ms 12.627 ms
11 cloudproxy10005.sucuri.net (192.124.249.5) 12.359 ms 12.407 ms 12.532 ms


And this is the Ping thing:

Ping has started…





PING mac-forums.com (192.124.249.5): 56 data bytes


64 bytes from 192.124.249.5: icmp_seq=0 ttl=54 time=12.852 ms


64 bytes from 192.124.249.5: icmp_seq=1 ttl=54 time=12.719 ms


64 bytes from 192.124.249.5: icmp_seq=2 ttl=54 time=12.838 ms


64 bytes from 192.124.249.5: icmp_seq=3 ttl=54 time=12.561 ms


64 bytes from 192.124.249.5: icmp_seq=4 ttl=54 time=12.785 ms


64 bytes from 192.124.249.5: icmp_seq=5 ttl=54 time=12.864 ms


64 bytes from 192.124.249.5: icmp_seq=6 ttl=54 time=12.982 ms


64 bytes from 192.124.249.5: icmp_seq=7 ttl=54 time=12.608 ms


64 bytes from 192.124.249.5: icmp_seq=8 ttl=54 time=12.696 ms


64 bytes from 192.124.249.5: icmp_seq=9 ttl=54 time=12.820 ms





--- mac-forums.com ping statistics ---


10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0.0% packet loss


round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 12.561/12.772/12.982/0.121 ms

Ian

 

[chscag]

@ian:

Both the Traceroute and Ping stats appear to be normal. As I stated elsewhere, must be something else causing the slowdowns.

We are working on it.

 

[pigoo3]

Website speed issues have been investigated...and some tweaks made.

Additionally some testing performed (time to load home page):

USA: 1.57 to 1.91 seconds
London, UK: 1.69 to 2.12 seconds
Sydney, Australia: 5.42 to 6.52 seconds

Hopefully everyone experiences better performance.

p.s. Some deviation from those values will occur during the day...due to server load...individual internet speeds on user end...time to fetch website content from external sources/servers...etc.

 

[IWT]

I can tell that as of 4pm GMT - or thereabouts - on Nov 30th, the time to open the Forums, to open New Posts, to go from one post to another has improved enormously for which I am most grateful.

Just some feedback. Well done guys.

Ian

 

[Whoopie]

I can tell that as of 4pm GMT - or thereabouts - on Nov 30th, the time to open the Forums, to open New Posts, to go from one post to another has improved enormously for which I am most grateful.

Just some feedback. Well done guys.

Ian

Yes, I am here using Safari for the first time in a l-o-n-g time.

 

[pigoo3]

Awesome...thanks Ian. Great to hear you're seeing an improvement!

Yes, I am here using Safari for the first time in a l-o-n-g time.

Excellent Whoopie. I know from the thread you posted a couple days ago that you were having issues connecting via browser & your new MacBook Air. Great Safari is now working.

- Nick

 

[RadDave]

@ian:

Both the Traceroute and Ping stats appear to be normal. As I stated elsewhere, must be something else causing the slowdowns.

We are working on it.

Well, as of this morning, the forum pages are now loading quickly for me, so back to normal on my MBAir (Catalina w/ Safari); and just tested my iPad Pro - same results, i.e. normal! Thanks - Dave

 

[Applescrumpy]

All OK here. Latest iOS and Big Sur - using Safari. Thanks to the ‘tweakers’ ?

 

[chscag]

Okay folks. Enjoy the forums and glad to hear your browsing experience is back to normal.

And to everyone who reported the slowdowns....

We appreciate your patience.

Thanks from the Staff.

 

[Rod]

Here in Melbourne, Australia at 0730 EDST:
Safari, 6.43 sec to load the Home page. 4.50 sec to open this thread.
Brave, 5.80 sec to load the Home page. 5.24 sec to open this thread.

Thanks for all the ongoing efforts everyone.


Sent from my iPhone using Mac-Forums

 

[krs]

Here in Melbourne, Australia at 0730 EDST:
Safari, 6.43 sec to load the Home page. 4.50 sec to open this thread.
Brave, 5.80 sec to load the Home page. 5.24 sec to open this thread.

What do you use to measure these times?

 

[pm-r]

I can tell that as of 4pm GMT - or thereabouts - on Nov 30th, the time to open the Forums, to open New Posts, to go from one post to another has improved enormously for which I am most grateful.

Just some feedback. Well done guys.

Ian

Congratulations to all those concerned, but it blows my mind away as to how one can remotely tell a server or whatever it is that's involved, to smarten up and behave and perform properly. Or are they just offered various bribes to do so???

BTW: I didn't seem to notice or have any slowdowns with the site here on the Canadian west wet Coast. And very windy here again today!!!


- Patrick
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[pigoo3]

Congratulations to all those concerned, but it blows my mind away as to how one can remotely tell a server or whatever it is that's involved, to smarten up and behave and perform properly. Or are they just offered various bribes to do so???

Some butt-kicking + bribes (mostly bribes)! Lol

 

[lclev]

What ever it took - I appreciate you! Pages are loading much much faster!!!!

Lisa

 

[pigoo3]

Excellent!

 

[Slydude]

What does "Toggle BB code" mean and why is that option there in the first place?
View attachment 32909

BBCode or Bulletin Board Code is a lightweight markup language used to format posts in many message boards. The available tags are usually indicated by square brackets ([ ]) surrounding a keyword, and they are parsed by the message board system before being translated into a markup language that web browsers understand—usually HTML or XHTML.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBCode

 

[Rod]

What do you use to measure these times?

Stopwatch. I have a mechanical Seiko stopwatch used for track cycling,

 

[chscag]

Stopwatch. I have a mechanical Seiko stopwatch used for track cycling,

You didn't use your Apple Watch?