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Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: anarcho47 on November 08, 2011, 10:48 pm

Title: SR intermittence - it it just me?
Post by: anarcho47 on November 08, 2011, 10:48 pm
So I've been noticing the ability to connect to SR has been REALLY on-and-off of late.  Probably 1 in 3 attempts to do something on the actual SR site either times out or can't establish connection at all.

I did do the latest Tor update, which I know knocked out a few high-bandwidth nodes (kind of scary, when you think of the WHY behind it).  But I have found that on all other sites I visit via Tor it's the same-old-same-old.  Is this an issue on SR server capacity side after the outage a little while ago?  Anybody have any info on that?

The forums are definitely better connection-wise than SR, which leads me to believe it's probably something on SR's side.  But I'm wondering if anybody has an inside scoop.....

Title: Re: SR intermittence - it it just me?
Post by: Neutrino on November 09, 2011, 03:18 am
I've been experiencing this exactly as you described and it all started after the SR outage. I thought it was in my head so I didn't say anything but now that you've mentioned it. Well, thank Science!

I've been using the latest Tor Browser Bundle and two different ISPs (thanks neighbours :D) and I'm getting similar behaviour. *le sigh*
Title: Re: SR intermittence - it it just me?
Post by: filthymuk on November 09, 2011, 03:42 am
same here...even today the forum has been a bit shitty..

im guessing after the outage its not quite back to 100%??
Title: Re: SR intermittence - it it just me?
Post by: anarcho47 on November 09, 2011, 04:30 am
Well I think the reason SR went down was that an entire server was pulled and they had to move everything over to a backup server that has less capability/bandwidth.  But I'm just repeating what I heard mumbling about at the time, so it could be absolute shit.

That's why i'm asking.  Would the real Unix admin please stand up?
Title: Re: SR intermittence - it it just me?
Post by: ProudCannabian on November 09, 2011, 05:00 am
During certain hours I find it hard to connect, but once I'm in, I'm pretty much in.
I chalk it up to high traffic more than anything.
This time of night I have no problems!

:P
Title: Re: SR intermittence - it it just me?
Post by: Buho on November 09, 2011, 11:57 am
Thats weird cause I find that the site works a lot better than couple months ago. But I am in EU , so maybe thats it.
Title: Re: SR intermittence - it it just me?
Post by: DigitalAlch on November 10, 2011, 12:52 am
Tor is an unwieldy beast. Connection have seem to drop more for me lately though.

Peace,
DigitalAlch