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TaoPhoenix:
A friend of mine is starting up a reboot of his writing site called the Creator and the Catalyst.
The basic site is here:
http://www.creatorandthecatalyst.com/
The forum that I have trouble with starts here:
http://www.creatorandthecatalyst.com/dir/index.php

My question here is that I consistently get thirty second page loads and time-outs, and it's almost the only site on the net that does that for me. However rough evidence says that the raw site is up.

So I wonder if I posted a tracert so you all could look at the routing and if there's an amazingly bad link in the middle, is there a way to force my local machine to find an alternate route that might work?

P.S. It seems to be a bit erratic - like once the network finds the path, it serves the next several pages in a row or something.

TaoPhoenix:
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\user.NONE-79DB031E3D>tracert creatorandthecatalyst.co
m

Tracing route to creatorandthecatalyst.com [198.235.135.66]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1 3 ms 1 ms 1 ms 10.0.1.1
  2 46 ms 110 ms 22 ms cpe-24-193-32-1.nyc.res.rr.com [24.193.32.1]
  3 13 ms 17 ms 13 ms ten-0-2-1-0.nycmnyl-rtr1.nyc.rr.com [24.168.134.
225]
  4 79 ms 32 ms 15 ms bun110.nyquny91-rtr001.nyc.rr.com [184.152.112.7
7]
  5 17 ms 16 ms 26 ms bun6-nyquny91-rtr002.nyc.rr.com [24.29.148.254]

  6 16 ms 43 ms 15 ms 107.14.19.22
  7 14 ms 12 ms 12 ms ae-0-0.pr0.nyc30.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.159]
  8 14 ms 26 ms * xe-4-2-0.edge4.frankfurt1.level3.net [4.68.63.12
1]
  9 71 ms 29 ms 19 ms ae-31-51.ebr1.Newark1.Level3.net [4.69.156.30]
10 17 ms 20 ms 17 ms ae-2-2.ebr1.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.69.132.97]
11 * * * Request timed out.
12 22 ms 20 ms 18 ms ae-0-11.bar1.Boston1.Level3.net [4.69.140.89]
13 19 ms 25 ms 19 ms TOWARDEX-TE.bar1.Boston1.Level3.net [4.31.154.78
]
14 19 ms 21 ms 18 ms bbr01-ae-0-20G.bsn01.twdx.net [198.160.63.136]
15 43 ms 37 ms 59 ms bbr02-ae-2-40G.bos01.twdx.net [198.160.63.130]
16 25 ms 34 ms 25 ms dcr04-xe-0-0-0.bos01.twdx.net [216.93.255.213]
17 29 ms 37 ms 30 ms csw02-vlan232.bos01.twdx.net [216.93.255.221]
18 27 ms 26 ms 27 ms v102.bos01.remly.com [208.118.224.222]
19 25 ms 41 ms 26 ms web1.all-creatures.org [198.235.135.66]

Trace complete.

C:\Documents and Settings\user.NONE-79DB031E3D>

Notice for example the timeouts around Level3.

Stoic Joker:
The timeouts are odd, but not necessarily damning - I'd be more curious as to why hop 2 is taking so long.

The site loads instantaneously from here.

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\>tracert creatorandthecatalyst.com

Tracing route to creatorandthecatalyst.com [198.235.135.66]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1 2 ms <1 ms <1 ms [me]
  2 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 24.248.54.1
  3 5 ms 4 ms 3 ms 69.80.79.177
  4 10 ms 9 ms 9 ms m1049-ftl2-10ge-1-1-4.fplfn.net [208.67.167.94]
  5 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms m1070-nap-10ge-2-0-1.fplfn.net [208.67.166.70]
  6 13 ms 15 ms 11 ms be-10-902-pe01.nota.fl.ibone.comcast.net [66.208.228.113]
  7 16 ms 15 ms 15 ms pos-1-9-0-0-cr01.miami.fl.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.88.105]
  8 22 ms 19 ms 19 ms 68.86.85.5
  9 36 ms 35 ms 35 ms he-0-2-0-0-cr01.ashburn.va.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.89.145]
10 41 ms 39 ms 39 ms he-0-10-0-0-cr01.newyork.ny.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.85.10]
11 42 ms 42 ms 42 ms xe-0-0-0-0-pe01.onesummer.ma.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.84.130]
12 94 ms 42 ms 42 ms Comcast-px.bos3.twdx.net [173.167.56.98]
13 42 ms 42 ms 42 ms dcr04-xe-0-0-1.bos01.twdx.net [216.93.255.215]
14 43 ms 43 ms 42 ms csw02-vlan232.bos01.twdx.net [216.93.255.221]
15 42 ms 42 ms 42 ms v102.bos01.remly.com [208.118.224.222]
16 42 ms 42 ms 42 ms web1.all-creatures.org [198.235.135.66]

Trace complete.
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TaoPhoenix:
So can I do something that forces an alternate routing or something? Or is that "just not how the internetz work?"

40hz:
It's basically out of your hands. You can pretty much only control the routing within your own network. Once it leaves there it gets routed where it does. You might try changing your DNS server setting to see if that helps. (It probably won't btw.)

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