[Elecraft] Slow to load site

[Rich Lentz]

At home with COX Cable I can load Elecraft pages in seconds (2 - 7). =
However
at work, which has a T1 connection, some times it will take over a =
minute
and even time out on the main or subsequent pages.    I have used finger =
and
whois, etc. and the same is true for other sites on the server Elecraft
uses, when at work. I have used traceroute and from work the first big =
hop
goes through St Louis, however from home the first big hop is to San
Francisco.  And, no the server at work is not bogged down as when I try
Elecraft and it don't load it will load CNN, USA, etc, in seconds. This
makes me think that it is at the Elecraft server or the route that gets
used.=20

This happens so often I have even saved a shortcut to the Elecraft =
Archives
(since it is on a different server than Elecraft) to read the archive at
work.  Otherwise I couldn't get to it.  Have thought of complaining to =
Eric,
but he has better things to do.

Oh yes, don't believe the stuff that it is faster to down load from a =
site
closest to you.  I have used traceroute and even though I and my office =
are
in Omaha, NE, all data goes through Kansas City and St Louis between my =
home
and work. I actually get faster downloads of large files from California
than from a site in Nebraska or Kansas.=20

Rich

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> Does anyone else have a problem getting the Elecraft site to load in=20
> anything less than minutes?  It takes a very long time to load the=20
> home page.  Viewing some other pages goes much more quickly.
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