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Forums terribly slow with long waiting and then...

Mar 8, 2008 10:17AM PST

in many cases the following message is received.

"We're sorry, but the page you requested could not be found."

This has occurred all afternoon and until 8:13 PM CST.

Glenn

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Not just the forums...
Mar 8, 2008 12:37PM PST

I'm getting the Cnet 404 throughout Tips & Tricks tonight. Sad

John

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Still a little slow here
Mar 8, 2008 7:43PM PST

10:40 GMT and response is still sluggish.

But I have not had any 404's so far.

Mark

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Ditto here but for me it has
Mar 8, 2008 9:19PM PST

been on and off for about 4 days. Carol (Curcat) e-mailed me and has been having the same problem the last few days. Sometimes after posting, it will time out going back to the same thread and I have to go through favorites to get back in and then it is OK for a little while until it happens again. And MANY page not founds.

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And she is STILL having problems :(
Mar 10, 2008 1:08AM PDT

I decided to add my 2

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Yep, today is the worst yet, at
Mar 10, 2008 1:17AM PDT

least for ME it is. I am getting "page not found" 9 times out of 10 now. I can not get the spyware/virus forum to load any more at all now and I am surprised I was able to got this this thread here. Time to take the day off from CNET until this is fixed I think. This has been going on for months but it has definately gotten worse the last few days. Time for new CNET "engineers" I think.

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Still sluggish @ 8:47EST 03/09/2008
Mar 8, 2008 9:51PM PST

Lots of page not found. Sometimes it just hangs for a period before it decides to give you page not found. Has been like this all weekend.


Rick

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Page not found
Mar 9, 2008 11:52AM PDT

It's now 8:47 cdst on Sunday 3/9/08

Tried to open Virus&Security and Windows XP I finally settled for feedback and it opened

This has been happening for months now only not as frequently as now

Complaining only falls on deaf ears. If you don't believe just join Ricks club and you will see for yourself

Ray

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Page not found
Mar 11, 2008 10:47AM PDT

:Tuesday March 11 th 7:43 cdst

V&s and Window XP not opening after a number of tries and reloads

This happening since Sunday

Is anyone looking into this problem

Ray

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Same problem here 7 or 8 times
Mar 11, 2008 10:57AM PDT

in a row sometimes. Noone has responded to this thread so I assume it in not being looked at. It has gotten ridiculous. Sad

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i hope there
Mar 11, 2008 11:13AM PDT

help forums supply better results

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I have reported this... but I have some questions.
Mar 12, 2008 2:37AM PDT

When these occurrences of CNET page not found. How long does it typically last 10 minutes, an hour. Is it usually when you are in the process of posting or reading posts, or both.

Any specific details would help.

Thanks guys!
-Lee

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Oh one last thing do see these occurences happen more often
Mar 12, 2008 2:38AM PDT

on weekends or on weekdays?

Thanks!
-Lee

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In my OWN case Lee, I see no
Mar 12, 2008 2:54AM PDT

rhyme nor reason as to when this happens or how often. It makes no difference as to the time of today or whether it is a weekend or not. I can make 20 or 30 posts in a row without it happening at all and it will be fine for hours, and then all of a sudden it will happen for 15 or 20 minutes, then be ok for the next post or two and then start happening again. The page not founds will be sporadic for hours after that.

The one thing that I DID notice is that if I click on a link to return to the thread I am in, IF I get brought back immediately, then I can post again BUT if it sits there and starts timing out, I will start getting the page ont founds.

We have been getting these page not founds for a year or so, ever since the last major upgrade but this last week has been worse than usual.

I doubt if this stuff will help you though and also remember that this is MY experience. Somebody else's may be different.

Good luck Lee. Happy

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(NT) Thanks Rod! Anything you provide helps
Mar 12, 2008 3:31AM PDT
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For me this goes on...
Mar 12, 2008 3:27AM PDT

for some time with times outs and just plain slow and waiting for loads to complete. Today things are good... yesterday afternoon and evening it was so bad that I finally gave up and went elsewhere. The occurrence happens both weekdays and weekends... I can see no difference.

Glenn

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(NT) Thanks for info Glenn!
Mar 12, 2008 3:31AM PDT