Some links fast and some V-E-R-Y S-L-O-W...

[®KIM]

Can someone please throw some light on why I've been having trouble getting into some sites these past few days, while others are quick to access? In the past two of the sites - one USA and the other British - gave me no trouble whatsoever, but suddenly I can't seem to access them at all. Yet other USA sites operate normally... I've done the usual checks - defrag, registry, etc - but to no avail.

I'm running on Windows 7 and ADSL.

Any advice from the experts, please?

Thanks in anticipation.

[nomad1985]

Can someone please throw some light on why I've been having trouble getting into some sites these past few days, while others are quick to access? In the past two of the sites - one USA and the other British - gave me no trouble whatsoever, but suddenly I can't seem to access them at all. Yet other USA sites operate normally... I've done the usual checks - defrag, registry, etc - but to no avail.

I'm running on Windows 7 and ADSL.

Any advice from the experts, please?

Thanks in anticipation.

What area are you in ?

[®KIM]

What area are you in ?

Kempton Park, East Rand/Gauteng. Would that have any bearing on the problem, perhaps?

[nomad1985]

Kempton Park, East Rand/Gauteng. Would that have any bearing on the problem, perhaps?

What ISP are you using ?

Im in Fish Hoek Cape Tone area and using Mweb Uncapped 4MB and tested on Webafrica 1GB Prepaid as well but both are giving issues with internet connection have phoned Telkom and Mweb from what I gather in my area it is a Cat4 Dslam connection problem

Is any of this maybe related for yourself ?

Outage Num:13021
Telkom ADSL outage affecting Birchleigh (011 - 391, 396, 972)
Telkom ADSL services in the following area may be Inaccessible : Birchleigh (011 - 391, 396, 972)
Start Date:2012-08-14 13:15:49
End Date:
Status:Open

Outage Num:13020
Telkom ADSL outage affecting Elspark ( 011 - 893, 916 )
Telkom ADSL services in the following area may be Inaccessible : Elspark ( 011 - 893, 916 )
Start Date:2012-08-14 12:59:31
End Date:
Status:Open

Outage Num:13017
Telkom ADSL outage affecting Rynfield (011 - 425, 849)
Telkom ADSL services in the following area may be Inaccessible : Rynfield (011 - 425, 849)
Start Date:2012-08-13 18:59:36
End Date:
Status:Open

[Tim the Techxpert]

Looks like Nomad1985 might have part of the prblem identified. However I would have thought that that would have affected all your connectivity and not just a couple of sites.

Which sites are you trying to get to?

Regards

Tim

[sajunky]

Looks like Nomad1985 might have part of the prblem identified. However I would have thought that that would have affected all your connectivity and not just a couple of sites.

It could be different transparent proxy servers on the path, or corruption on routing tables directing to slower path, many causes.
If you wand do some research, use traceroute to identify path and compare good and slow ones. Windows program is called tracert