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CASA slowness

Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 3:44 pm
by Mark
Hey there, guys,

Am I the only one for whom CASA seems to load sort of slower during the last few weeks?

Re: CASA slowness

Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 4:26 pm
by Gunness
Hmmm.... I'm not sure. I did a lot of updating yesterday, and that went pretty smoothly. But at other times I've been inclined to agree.

Re: CASA slowness

Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 1:46 pm
by Mark
Don't get me wrong - it was nowhere near the ultraslowness we had when the site was newly up. But it does take a few seconds here and there before it reacts. Nothing to worry about. Aren't we all, from our youth, used to loading times of 10 minutes anway...? :wink:

Re: CASA slowness

Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 9:50 am
by Gunness
Ugh... the loading times are one aspect of times gone by that I don't miss in any way, shape or form ;)

Has anyone else experienced slow loading of the site?

Re: CASA slowness

Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 8:54 pm
by Alastair
Gunness wrote:Has anyone else experienced slow loading of the site?
I have, but then during the same period some other sites were also slow. So in my cases it was probably down to my ISP or general internet slowness rather than something specific to this site.

Re: CASA slowness

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 4:26 am
by terri
I have no experience in specific CASA slowness, but I agree with Alastair (I think).

The best time for me to access CASA (wrt speed of connection) is between 5pm (my local time) and about 8 pm. After that, and before that, it is far slower. So, given that the Western Hemisphere is 5-6 hours (behind, I think? - you are awake and we are still asleep), i.e. at 10 AM GMT, it's 5 AM, my time (right?). So at 5 PM (my time), it's noon GMT (yes, I know that is the old way of saying so, but I can't remember the new "translation".)

I may be adding and subtracting incorrectly. I figure these things are designed SPECIFICALLY to disturb me (joke). I can't get on a plane whose destination is a one-hour difference and figure it out. You folks will set me straight, I know. But a 1-hour difference does not distort one's sleep patterns.

I went to Europe and had to sleep - immediately (depite being told not to). I came back to Canada, and I was rarin' to go. Flights going east are late afternoons flights. Flights going west, at least from Europe (I believe), are morning flights. Not withstanding that they fly at different altitudes (so they won't crash). Congestion in the air? Probably Europeans travelling here may have the opposite experience, though it may depend on how long one has been awake. Does "jet lag" work the other way, or do you Europeans not experience this phenomonon? Or only on return? We have jeg lag going east, while none coming back. Though it may have something to to with the "experience" while you are on holiday.

I suppose it depends (in your time zones - in the Eastern Hemisphere) where your Internet periods of high usage are. And where the receiving parties overlap. There are those who access at work, and those who access at home.

As far as I know, (in my "small" part of the world within this time zone) we have 6 time zones, I believe in Canada, and this does make a difference. The last I read, most access was during work hours, but that may have changed.

I know I am equating air travel with Internet usage. But there may be a relation between the two.

Can you try connecting at your time zone to other sites within that/another time zone and see what happens? Try also connecting to those "really" far away like Dorothy's site from Australia?

And do the math. And tell me if I am "forward" or "backward" . I really should not get involved in this discussion, since the only "fact" I can reference is that the sun rises in the east, so you are "earlier".

See, aren't you glad you asked?

Re: CASA slowness

Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 12:03 am
by Alastair
Terri,

Re. Jet Lag. If I remember correctly, eastward flights are supposed to be worse than westward flights.

Re. Internet speeds during a day. In Europe there is a noticeable drop in trans-Atlantic speed when the USA 'wakes up', so for the drop off you mention you should probably blame those people south of the border!

Re: CASA slowness

Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 9:57 pm
by terri
Point well taken. Though US and CAN time zones, I believe, are the same. However given their significantly larger population, you may be correct.