Anyone having problems accessing EFN sites lately?

I am. I’m having to try to open individual pages 3 or 4 times before the page actually opens. Often the page just “times out.” If more than jus ta couple of us are experiencing the same probelm, I’ll contact our bandwidth provider and seek a resolution.

So please, if I’m not the only one struggling with this, let us know. Not just in this instance, but in the future as well. If the site is slow for an extended period of time or access is limited or inconsistent for a couple days, don’t hesitate to tell us.

Thanks much everyone.

YES !! YES !! YES !!

Here I thought it was my computer…

Thank you very much for bringing this up James

James,

I’ve been having the same problem as well. Some days are better than others.

I have been having problems with FTR and FTL. Same things you just mentioned.

I have been having occasional problems with timing out and needing to refresh.

Hey James, I’m having problems like that too.

I’ve had the same problem on nearly every part of the site. Mostly, it’s time-out issues. Don’t know whether it’s heavy site usage, lots of web traffic or what. Gets a little frustrating but hopefully it’s temporary.

YA FOR THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS ! I THOUGHT IT MAY JUST BE MY COMPUTER BUT OTHER SITES OPEN FINE! THANKS FOR THE POST !

Yes, I have noticed this also. Going back about 3 weeks I would guess. I do eventually get there but it takes longer. Times out once in awhile.

And here’s what I found out…

HBC out of Winona hosts our server and they’ve run into some serious hardware limitations. So they plan to add a couple new core routers to solve the problem and we should be back to running fast again in a couple weeks. I wish we wouldn’t have to put up with this for any longer tha nwe already have but just getting the equipment in-house will take over a week. But they identified the problem, were honest about it, and have already begun to implement the solution. That type of honesty I respect.

Just thought I’d keep everyone else in the loop and assure everyone that a fix is coming… until then we just keep hitting “refresh!”

Way to be Heads Up . I was also having the Timed out message. It will be good to be back to normal when it comes.

Thanks for the info James .

At least we know now ….

And knowing is half the battle <<<<(GI Joe Cartoon)

DITTO !!!

Richard (Smitty)

Keep a tight line !!!

When I’d have these encounters in the middle of the night I thought it was peculiar but thought it was just maintenence issues. These things are often done during the odd hours and I trip over them frequently. Thanks for bringing up the question and finding the cause James!

PS – This is my 1000th FTR post! Just wanted to label it.

Thought it was our computer as we had big problems with it last week. Nice to know what the real problem was. Thanks

Ditto from the lakes area. I’m experiencing the same probles as you James. In addition to the slow pages I also wasn’t able to log on the FTL site. Evidentally FTR and FTL are two different sites. I thought my user name and password would work on both sites. It didn’t and the only way to resolve this was to create a username and password under FTL. It allowed me to use all identical inforamtion as the FTR site. Is this normal?

Each site does require a user name and password. They can be the same though but need to be entered in [registered]. Hope to see some post from you on FTL as I know there are some great fishing lakes in your area. Bill

Just a thought James: Is there a time when I should be avoiding being on FTR when they’re putting those so called core routers in. I’d hate to see my PC crash. Ya Know? {John}

The hardware upgrades can’t effect or harm your pc in any way. What will happen is that some night late, EFN websites will be un-available for a short amount of time. Most if not nearly all of us won’t even notice the change-over took place… except the performance issues will be a thing of the past.

There doesn’t seam to be any performance issues now !!

I’m not sure if its just dumb luck or if you guys really found the answere…but I like it !!

It’s been running great on my end too. Hopfully we have this bug fixed for good now.

On behalf of EFN managment who have been working hard to fix this problem, I’d like to thank all of the visitors who have been patient the past several weeks. If you have been frustrated trying to post a message, view a report, send a private message or any of the other great features we have here, please give it another try. I’m sure you will find things “Back to Normal”!!

Thanks again,
Jon J.

you know what? I think it just might be fixed… dont think Ive had a time out tonight….. but I will keep an eagle eye out…. or should that be a “river” eye?