Got a message from the IB folks today and they did a few tests and traces. What they found was that the connections in West Michigan are the worst they've seen. This could be the problem in other areas of the country where some of you are having trouble as well.

I don't like the answer and the question of 'why just this site' still plague me, but at least they did something proactive and actually found a problem. I'm reasonably happy with that! Well, as happy as I get anyway.

 

Sophomoric excuse at best. An internet connection relies on lots of things, including DNS servers all over the place. It's really quite intricate, and remarkably reliable for how tricky it is. It is, however, like the mail. Usually reliable, but once in awhile things just disappear.

If your programming doesn't allow for that random disappearance, then you get the dead hang. Of course it'll be worse where the service is poorer. The reason other sites don't experience the same fate is that they compensate for the random dropped connection.

 

That was way too much work for a Friday morning...

Go get in your boat, now!

 

Aye aye, sir.

 

Think of the Internet as a giant mess of water pipes all hooked together with valves and pressure tanks that divert flow in all sorts of directions.....

Some valves are open all the way while others are clogged and slow things to a trickle, the trick is to get your flow from a source that bypasses the plugged up valves (or servers).

We had lots of trouble here for years with anyone whose connection flowed through any AOL servers they were totally clogged up and many members could simply not log on because of it. They didn't have to be a AOL user, their IP provider often just routed them through the lousy AOL servers.

You might try calling your IP provider and seeing if they can help you make your machine log on to a DNS server that will pipe you AROUND the clogged up servers you are currently using.

I had trouble here in WV with mine trying to log on to the CA DTR servers until I routed mine through our old DTR server in NC and used it as my DNS server. That sent things in a different direction than my IP provider did it.

 

Lary good suggestions but will they help when Chacky wacky is still using carrier pigeons to access his IP ?

 

Shhhhhhh don't say anything we want him to continue sending the pigeons they are great fun to shoot down and taste great on the grill with a piece of bacon wrapped around the breast

 

I wonder when the old coot will realize that maybe its a hint that we dont.... I mean IB doesn't want him around? J/K buddy we love ya

 

No one WANTS me around. I'm just here, kinda like polluted air!

 

I can smell you every time you log on!

 

And all of it run by the city of Detroit.

Well sheep dip.

 

That's what we're smelling. Clogged pipes fromDetroit.