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Mar 22, 2005, 10:03pm

For about the past 2 weeks, the Alphaworld servers for me have been
soooooooooo sloooowwww. Last night I was scanning a 40x40 coord area of
town with a xelagot and it took literally 40 minutes.

The rest of the time, the world caches data ridiculously slow...I have to
just go afk and come back later.

And the most annoying is building. Having the past 2 minutes of work
suddenly pop and then get a "waiting for server" error...ugh. It's
impossible to do a cell select and delete it. I bounce, and everything
deleted is there again.
My friends notice the same thing. It seems to happen off and on. About
half the time its been like this for me.

What's going on? >_<

Mar 22, 2005, 10:20pm

[View Quote] > For about the past 2 weeks, the Alphaworld servers for me have been
> soooooooooo sloooowwww. Last night I was scanning a 40x40 coord area of
> town with a xelagot and it took literally 40 minutes.
>
> The rest of the time, the world caches data ridiculously slow...I have to
> just go afk and come back later.
>
> And the most annoying is building. Having the past 2 minutes of work
> suddenly pop and then get a "waiting for server" error...ugh. It's
> impossible to do a cell select and delete it. I bounce, and everything
> deleted is there again.
> My friends notice the same thing. It seems to happen off and on. About
> half the time its been like this for me.
>
> What's going on? >_<
>
>

I did not notice any change in the Alpha server's speed. Did you do some traceroute? That could be that your ISP took a cheap route there :(

--
Andras
"It's MY computer" (tm Steve Gibson)

Mar 22, 2005, 10:24pm

Nope - AW Server is being completly screwed, sometimes its taking 10 or 11
seconds to send all of the avatar event data, and response times on messages
to it via SDK are upto 5 or 6 seconds.

Oh, and random near-perminant WFS's every so often.

- MR

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Mar 22, 2005, 11:40pm

I don't know anything about that, but I've noticed .wavs sound warped.
Especially the Deport .wav

~ TS

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Mar 22, 2005, 11:54pm

AW uses InterNap bandwidth (which is generally very good). Check this
page out to see how their routing looks compared to other major
bandwidth providers:

http://scoreboard2.keynote.com/scoreboard/Main.aspx?Login=Y&Username=public&Password=public

If the routes all look okay, then it most likely an issue with your ISP
or the AW server itself.

-Builderz

Mar 23, 2005, 12:19am

I have noticed some poor performance as of late as well. Things do cache
very slowly, and I often partially lose connection with the uniserver, thus
clearing my contacts and worlds list. I have to reconnect whenever that
happens. Never happened before until just a few months ago (like 2...)

-CMM

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Mar 23, 2005, 2:01am

Im glad to know that Im not the only one having problems..... just yesterday
all the objects I had delted came back again....:(

[View Quote] > I have noticed some poor performance as of late as well. Things do cache
> very slowly, and I often partially lose connection with the uniserver, thus
> clearing my contacts and worlds list. I have to reconnect whenever that
> happens. Never happened before until just a few months ago (like 2...)
>
> -CMM
>
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Mar 24, 2005, 6:19am

Noticed this also last night around 10:00 pm E.S.T.. The delete and not
deleted syndrome. Just in the past month especially. A friend told me last
night I did not show online with a check mark even though we were standing
talking to each other. Apparently something was lost as I could not see my
contacts or worlds list but the friend could see me and chat. I even got
curious enough to check my internet connect speed.

Mar 24, 2005, 11:18am

Just now (8:00am EST) tried to get into AW and found that all I could get
was Cy for Avatars. So I went and deleted AW's cache. Now all I get when I
enter AW is blue screen and black triangles. I then went into AWGate where
I do GK and found that beyond a certain radius (where I haven't been
recently) I was also seeing black triangles!

I also checked Teengate and was able to download fine there. In fact, it was
my very first time on that world. Have tried a couple of other worlds and
wound up having successful downloads.

Oh yes, at one point I did have that dratted error #17 I think. Oh yes, I'm
on DSL.

Wondering,

Barbara Eisner
aka Lady Barbara

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Mar 24, 2005, 3:15pm

I just remembered this, reading Lady Barbara's post. Every once in awhile
lately I'll see at the bottom of my screen "Looking for aw..."
AW is the only world in which this happens. I won't be able to click on
anything to build. or to even see who a builder is if I go to another's
buiild.
The only thing I can do is go to another world or come back later.

~ TS

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Mar 24, 2005, 7:27pm

I also noticed the same delete/reappear problem while in alphaworld.. Whats
up with that?

-Matt

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Mar 24, 2005, 8:14pm

Yea the delete issue is the worst...tried to delete a building. Took it out
7 times, and only managed to delete 2 cells :P
I have to have someone else delete it. The problem seems to be per-user.

Other worlds work great though, like AWTeen. And no problem with other
internet programs either.

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Mar 25, 2005, 1:02pm

Yes thats right, it seems the only worlds that are having problems are the
Alphaworld ones, and a few private aw-hosted worlds

-Matt
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Mar 26, 2005, 5:49pm

Another example of AWTeen getting all the better treatment :P

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Mar 28, 2005, 4:06am

Uuuuuuuugggghhh getting worse before it gets better. Just finished building
a whole building exterior...bounce, and its all gone. How annoying is
that -_-



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Mar 28, 2005, 4:23am

There it is...weird. I was able to create, edit and delete objects in the
server, but I wasn't able to see them. I restarted AW and there everything
was, though, a bit of a mess after trying to recover it from before :P


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Mar 28, 2005, 12:04pm

[View Quote] I find moving things in some places very slow, in others, fine. Does
anyone else get that?

Mar 29, 2005, 3:53am

Ok folks... who here HASNT had a problem with the servers? Just a random
poll. I'm in the midwest and I'm fine. The only problem I had was one
night two or three weeks ago.

Chris

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Mar 29, 2005, 4:05am

I been spending a lot of time on AW lately (preparing for the bash and what
not). Litterally about half the time its ok, and the other its barely
useable.

I emailed AWI about it on the 22nd...no reply *sigh* >_<


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Mar 29, 2005, 10:06am

[View Quote] I haven't been building in AlphaWorld lately, but its property updates
and object downloads work fast for me. Maybe because I am not using it
at the heavy load US evening/night times? I'm in Europe with 8 Mbps ADSL.

Lately there has also been problems with the uniserver, Customs Aide etc.
My forwarding my.activeworlds.com email address hasn't worked for weeks
- which has cut my spam down by 99 % hehe, but I have used it for
many web registrations so am wondering if I miss essential messages also.
I emailed about it on 16th and 27th but no reply. I wonder if Support address is down too?
Or then they are too busy maintaining/fixing/building their servers to answer right away.

--
Mauz
http://mauz.info

Mar 29, 2005, 6:50pm

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Woo got a reply from Support now :) Apparently its IP address just needed changing.

--
Mauz
http://mauz.info

Mar 30, 2005, 2:45am

Hey there,

Since I cannot afford to continue my personal world at this time, I have
been spending more time on AlphaWorld (AW).

I cannot say that I've experienced any problems with connections, downloads,
or even using my Xelabot. I've been doing some drastic
building lately, and I'm using the lowest speed cable modem that my ISP
provides, which is 112 kbps.

I am connecting from Ohio, in the United States, so perhaps being so close
to their servers might have something to do with why I don't
seem to be affected... dunno.

About the only odd thing I have noticed, is that everytime I log in, it
almost seems like my cache is refreshing everything.. I don't always
start out with triangles, but I have been getting them more often than I
remember. Again, that might be that I haven't been using this
slow of a connection with AW in awhile..

Oh, I suppose that I could also report that trying to upgrade using the
auto-upgrade doesn't work for me.. at this speed, it keeps timing
out and dropping my connection. :^p

Bastillion, Caretaker for The Bastion (A Gallery of Talented Builders)
AW 1206n 7750w
www.bastillion.net

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Mar 30, 2005, 5:02am

From what I've noticed, the lag seems to be per user. I've heard quite a
handful of people now who have been complaining at the lag, but, never at
the same time. It sounds as if the server was specifically "ignoring"
certain clients.

I had an ISP tech came out here today and they didn't really find anything
wrong with the lines. We have been having some internet outages lately.
But, all other worlds and programs and download speeds are running great
(using 1.5 mpbs cable btw).

Once again, today, half of the time it was caching regularly, the other half
was slow...and by slow I mean like no normal person would wait around that
long slow :P
During my "regular half", it can't help but notice people who join me
complain at the slow cache...hmmm O_o


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