<font color="#ff6666">Seems like this whole place just went into ultra slo-mo. :( </font>

I've had that happen to me from time to time, MagiK. It's going pretty fast for me right now, though, so it may be on your ISP's end.

Last night I was experiencing a slow period (right before the forums went crashycrashy) so I did a tracert on it and found that the Tampa Bay server was choking on the packets. (tampabay.rr.com).

-Saz

<font color="cyan">How do you do this?</font>

<font color="#ff6666">Seems to me that the Tampa RR people are consistantly at the root of a lot of problems for this place :( </font>

<font color="cyan">How do you do this?</font></font>[/QUOTE]<font color="#ff6666">Open a DOS box and type tracert, traceroute or whatever the utility name is. I think it is packaged with windblows, I have a full suite of net tools that I got from work so Im never sure what comes standard.

You use the format tracerout <ip address or url here> and watch the hops</font>

actually it would be

tracert www.ironworksforum.com

You can do the same thing with "ping" but ping just determines if a pathway is available. Tracert maps out the journey it takes to get there. Last night, it was going from Denton to Chicago to Atlanta to Tampa for me.

-Sazerac