Comments on: Site Matters http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2007/05/17/site-matters/ Challenging the Zeitgeist Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:31:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: tony conrad http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2007/05/17/site-matters/#comment-7150 tony conrad Sat, 19 May 2007 01:30:19 +0000 http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2007/05/17/site-matters/#comment-7150 thanks for workign with us here - VERY much appreciated. I know Martin and our guys have been checking in on your site today to make sure it's not the sphere plugin, so far, it looks good. NTL, we really appreciate you giving us a heads up inyour post and also for kindly putting it back onyour site - that will help us double confirm we don't have an issue. thanks again thanks for workign with us here - VERY much appreciated. I know Martin and our guys have been checking in on your site today to make sure it’s not the sphere plugin, so far, it looks good. NTL, we really appreciate you giving us a heads up inyour post and also for kindly putting it back onyour site - that will help us double confirm we don’t have an issue. thanks again

]]> By: Why Dont You Blog? : 2.2 Upgrade Completed http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2007/05/17/site-matters/#comment-7146 Why Dont You Blog? : 2.2 Upgrade Completed Fri, 18 May 2007 17:54:42 +0000 http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2007/05/17/site-matters/#comment-7146 [...] mentioned previously, we were intending to upgrade this site to Wordpress 2.2. This upgrade has now been completed and [...] [...] mentioned previously, we were intending to upgrade this site to Wordpress 2.2. This upgrade has now been completed and [...]

]]> By: Why Dont You Blog? : Plugin Admin http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2007/05/17/site-matters/#comment-7139 Why Dont You Blog? : Plugin Admin Thu, 17 May 2007 22:02:55 +0000 http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2007/05/17/site-matters/#comment-7139 [...] a previous post, I wrote: Secondly - I will be getting rid of some plugins and experimenting with new ones. Your [...] [...] a previous post, I wrote: Secondly - I will be getting rid of some plugins and experimenting with new ones. Your [...]

]]> By: TW http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2007/05/17/site-matters/#comment-7138 TW Thu, 17 May 2007 20:42:47 +0000 http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2007/05/17/site-matters/#comment-7138 Tony / Martin: Thanks for the comments and I will re-investigate what is causing the delay. The only reason I suspected it was Sphere is that was the last plugin I installed, and while the page is loading the status bar shows it is trying to contact sphere. There may well be many other issues causing problems and I will continue to investigate and I never meant this to be a rant against the Sphere plugin which is generally quite good. Tony / Martin:

Thanks for the comments and I will re-investigate what is causing the delay. The only reason I suspected it was Sphere is that was the last plugin I installed, and while the page is loading the status bar shows it is trying to contact sphere.

There may well be many other issues causing problems and I will continue to investigate and I never meant this to be a rant against the Sphere plugin which is generally quite good.

]]> By: Martin http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2007/05/17/site-matters/#comment-7136 Martin Thu, 17 May 2007 20:25:05 +0000 http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2007/05/17/site-matters/#comment-7136 Hi. If you have any data from Tamper on the Sphere plugin load times, please send that over to me. As Tony says, we don't have any other reports of it slowing down page loads, but if it's an issue, we're happy to take a look. Hi. If you have any data from Tamper on the Sphere plugin load times, please send that over to me. As Tony says, we don’t have any other reports of it slowing down page loads, but if it’s an issue, we’re happy to take a look.

]]> By: tony conrad http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2007/05/17/site-matters/#comment-7135 tony conrad Thu, 17 May 2007 20:15:19 +0000 http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2007/05/17/site-matters/#comment-7135 I don't think Sphere is the culprit on your slow page load, it's about as lightweight as it gets for a plugin application. As an example, just now, when I loaded your page, it took nearly a minute and you don't have the sphere related content plugin operating on your site. If I'm wrong about this, then please accept my apology but we haven't had any load issues and our icon is on over 1 billion content pages on the web. Tony I don’t think Sphere is the culprit on your slow page load, it’s about as lightweight as it gets for a plugin application. As an example, just now, when I loaded your page, it took nearly a minute and you don’t have the sphere related content plugin operating on your site. If I’m wrong about this, then please accept my apology but we haven’t had any load issues and our icon is on over 1 billion content pages on the web.

Tony

]]> By: TW http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2007/05/17/site-matters/#comment-7129 TW Thu, 17 May 2007 17:20:03 +0000 http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2007/05/17/site-matters/#comment-7129 Alun, thanks for the comments. I never really expected the maximum connection speed - at the moment I am on a 2MB line so anything around that will suit my needs fine. The uncapped bit is more important as the PC often spends the wee small hours downloading distros and the like. I had worried that Sky would be like you described. I have the microfilters, and the ADSL Modem / Router box already so it is just the line I need. I am (fairly) confident I can set it up without an engineer so the £40 connection fee and £17 per month is just insane as far as I can see. Once again, thanks for your comments - I will see what other options are available (Freeview TV is more than I watch anyway, so the Sky TV packages are just an unnecessary luxury ...). Alun, thanks for the comments.

I never really expected the maximum connection speed - at the moment I am on a 2MB line so anything around that will suit my needs fine. The uncapped bit is more important as the PC often spends the wee small hours downloading distros and the like.

I had worried that Sky would be like you described. I have the microfilters, and the ADSL Modem / Router box already so it is just the line I need. I am (fairly) confident I can set it up without an engineer so the £40 connection fee and £17 per month is just insane as far as I can see.

Once again, thanks for your comments - I will see what other options are available (Freeview TV is more than I watch anyway, so the Sky TV packages are just an unnecessary luxury …).

]]> By: Alun http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2007/05/17/site-matters/#comment-7128 Alun Thu, 17 May 2007 16:49:55 +0000 http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2007/05/17/site-matters/#comment-7128 Sphere-wise I've hardwired a javascript link into my site's template which doesn't call on the Sphere server until someone clicks on it. Sky-wise I'm on Sky Max. It is fast but you'll only get 16MB if you live next to the exchange. It's also uncapped and I've had no problems so far, but I'm not running a server off the connection. It's currently only available in some locations so I signed up an interest in it before Christmas but didn't get it till March. What they do is offer Sky Connect to anyone who isn't in a suitable location, which I wouldn't sign up to. You order and they send round a Sky router and microfilters for all the sockets. After that there's a delay while they activate your line and then you give your current provider the Mach code to switch your line. At this point it all goes wrong for a while. You have to use the Sky router to connect to Sky, but your connection won't be activated immediately so you won't know if you've got everything working right. Having said that the offline time moving from Tiscali to Sky ended up being about six hours. Once I'd connected there were further problems with Sky dropping the connection, but they said that was a problem at the exchange they were trying to fix. The temporary fix was restarting the router. It took a week to clear up, but since then it's been unnoticeable. Getting someone else's laptop from PCWorld to work with the wireless connection has been an entirely different matter... Sphere-wise I’ve hardwired a javascript link into my site’s template which doesn’t call on the Sphere server until someone clicks on it.

Sky-wise I’m on Sky Max. It is fast but you’ll only get 16MB if you live next to the exchange. It’s also uncapped and I’ve had no problems so far, but I’m not running a server off the connection.

It’s currently only available in some locations so I signed up an interest in it before Christmas but didn’t get it till March. What they do is offer Sky Connect to anyone who isn’t in a suitable location, which I wouldn’t sign up to. You order and they send round a Sky router and microfilters for all the sockets. After that there’s a delay while they activate your line and then you give your current provider the Mach code to switch your line. At this point it all goes wrong for a while. You have to use the Sky router to connect to Sky, but your connection won’t be activated immediately so you won’t know if you’ve got everything working right. Having said that the offline time moving from Tiscali to Sky ended up being about six hours.

Once I’d connected there were further problems with Sky dropping the connection, but they said that was a problem at the exchange they were trying to fix. The temporary fix was restarting the router. It took a week to clear up, but since then it’s been unnoticeable.

Getting someone else’s laptop from PCWorld to work with the wireless connection has been an entirely different matter…

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