Directv's Website

[kdarcangelis870]

Has anyone noticed that Directv's website is incredibly slow. I'm talking 40 second page loads.

 

[cablewithaview]

yes I have. they have redone the site and it out right sux.
damn they screwed it bad. at first I thought I had a problem with my connection or something. only on DirecTV. the home of HD Lite.

 

[gwinchilla]

good ole JAVA

Good ole' JAVA -- write once, run slow everywhere...

 

[JamesJ]

yes I have. they have redone the site and it out right sux.
damn they screwed it bad. at first I thought I had a problem with my connection or something. only on DirecTV. the home of HD Lite.

Wait DIrectv has HD lite on their website too, dang it amazing!!!


actually this is a thread about Directv's website, why bring up the whold Hd lite issue??

 

[charper1]

Runs just fine & fast for me @ :26 after

 

[ejdowden]

The new site is very slow here to. All other sites load fine for me.

 

[kds64]

your computer has stuff running in the back ground of windows
that what makes it slow
like any antivirus programs, small stuff

 

[charper1]

Yep, nothing wrong with thier site.

 

[directvfreak]

Loaded for me in 4 seconds. No problem.

 

[moonman]

N/P for me either..

 

[robbiee19]

Loaded for me in 4 seconds. No problem.

I beat you 3seconds!

 

[Jimbo]

sometimes it 's better than others, ealier in the week I found it to be quite slow.
If it's not thier site, why are other site running normally ?

Jimbo

 

[directvfreak]

I beat you 3seconds!

I beat you now. 1.672 seconds.

 

[damaged]

There could be routing issues which would affect different routes at different times, it could be at your ISPs end, or D* providers end (AT&T in this case), or any router that is being used at that time between your ISP and D*s site, since routing is dynamic, this can change at any time, in networking, any given packet exchange can change routes from time to time depending on the network traffic and the condition of any routers in between. This can be exasperated by any use by D*'s site to load ads or images from 3rd party servers, or other crosssite or backend (remote db access) activity which would affect D*s sites apparent loading time.

Comparing one site against all others does not tell anyone much other than they are having issues of 'some kind', since routing is dynamic, in order to narrow down where the problem lies, a traceroute should be taken at the time of the occurance of the latency, if that traceroute shows nominal latency and 0% packet loss, it can be assumed that the latency is probably caused by D*'s new site, perhaps inefficient scripts, high load, etc.

 

[johnml]

Its gotta be the site because it's slow for me too ( with DSL ) i have no other problems with other sites ???

 

[charper1]

It could be slow HOPS on a server between you and the DirecTV server, its fast for me. And a trace route shows no bottlenecks, what does yours show?

 

[Phroz]

It's slow for me as well, but I blame that on poor routing, not their website:

Tracing route to directv.com [147.21.128.18]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     7 ms     7 ms     7 ms  10.21.1.1
  2     7 ms     7 ms     8 ms  at-0-2-0-1710.CORE-RTR1.PORT.verizon-gni.net [130.81.10.241]
  3    18 ms    18 ms    18 ms  130.81.20.88
  4    18 ms    17 ms     *     so-6-0-0-0.PEER-RTR1.BOS.verizon-gni.net [130.81.17.169]
  5    25 ms    25 ms    25 ms  POS5-0.GW5.BOS4.ALTER.NET [152.63.21.129]
  6    24 ms    24 ms    24 ms  0.so-2-0-0.XL2.BOS4.ALTER.NET [152.63.25.58]
  7    73 ms    *        73 ms  0.so-4-0-0.XL2.DEN4.ALTER.NET [152.63.123.222]
  8    74 ms    73 ms    73 ms  178.ATM6-0.GW4.DEN4.ALTER.NET [152.63.93.213]
  9     *       74 ms     *     directv-gw.customer.alter.net [157.130.167.214]

 

[Jimbo]

Like I mentioned earlier, it was real slow a few days ago but appears fine since then.
Jimbo