AULRO Problems

[101RRS]

Since yesterday I am having problems with AULRO. The keyboard and mouse are not working well. Keyboard is like it has dirt under the keys ie – have to tap heavily and often the keystroke does not register. With the mouse, it has to be exactly over the point of the scroll arrows and when highlighting text big chunks of text are picked up rather than what is selected.

I have no other issues with any other site and the problem with AULRO also occurs using other browsers.

I have had to type this in word and copy and paste into AULRO.

Is anyone else having similar issues???

Garry

[oldsalt]

Nope ... all works well down Melb way.

[georgesadlik]

Could be a browser hijack. Happened to me the other week. I used this to sort it out and it worked well.

Microsoft Security Essentials

Cheers

George.

[dswatts]

I keep getting this message?
I thought I was registered?


AULRO is very busy at the moment. Registered users get priority when system load is high. Please try again later. To avoid this message, please register or login:
Username Password Remember Me

[101RRS]

That is normal when the system is busy.

Oh - everything is all OK now - typing this with no issues where before I had to type responses in Word and copy and paste into a reply.

Hmmm - strange - very strange.

Thanks for the responses.

Garry

[Bushie]

Since yesterday I am having problems with AULRO. The keyboard and mouse are not working well. Keyboard is like it has dirt under the keys ie – have to tap heavily and often the keystroke does not register. With the mouse, it has to be exactly over the point of the scroll arrows and when highlighting text big chunks of text are picked up rather than what is selected.

I have no other issues with any other site and the problem with AULRO also occurs using other browsers.

I have had to type this in word and copy and paste into AULRO.

Is anyone else having similar issues???

Garry

Similar issues - yes

Especially with the mouse needing to be exactly over a point in the text. I was beginning to think it was a problem with FF5 (could still be) but doesn't appear to affect any other forum or at least not to the same extent.
Seems OK tonight though

Martyn

[101RRS]

Mine played up for 24hours and now all fixed with no changes to my computer.

Strange but glad it has fixed itself.

Incisor - what did you do :).

Thanks

Garry

[123rover50]

My problem is different. In the evening when I log on, get in then change posts to view a different topic I get a Vbulletin message Aulro is very busy please log in. Even when I log in again the same things happen. I cant view any posts so give up and go read a book instead.

[incisor]

Incisor - what did you do :).

ummmm i think SFA covers it....

[Sparksdisco]

My problem is different. In the evening when I log on, get in then change posts to view a different topic I get a Vbulletin message Aulro is very busy please log in. Even when I log in again the same things happen. I cant view any posts so give up and go read a book instead.


Me too, I am a fully subscribed member and it wont let me get in when it is busy?????

[incisor]

Me too, I am a fully subscribed member and it wont let me get in when it is busy?????

next upgrade is coming around october which should alleviate a lot of the congestion.

[Pedro_The_Swift]

:o

tell us more!!:D








are you gunna ask for tech help from our wonderfull members??:wasntme:
lots of IT pro's out there--
so they tell me,:angel:

[vnx205]

Several times in the last month I have had a message at the top of the screen saying that I am bypassing the server busy function (or something like that).

Does that mean I am finally being treated with the respect I think I deserve and am being given a higher priority than you other blokes? :p

[adonuff]

Mine was strange too, The scroll wheel on the mouse was going nuts sometimes working sometimes not, tried to drag the down arrow on the RHS and same thing happened.

Went to other sites and they worked fine???
Then I got the busy note and no matter how many times I tried could not log in??

[Camper]

Had the same issues here in NT. Last night only, today fine.

Ended up being kicked off and not able to log on. System busy. Possibly an intrusion into the server at AULRO.:mad:

[101RRS]

I keep getting this message?
I thought I was registered?


AULRO is very busy at the moment. Registered users get priority when system load is high. Please try again later. To avoid this message, please register or login:
Username Password Remember Me

This is starting to get beyond a joke. Is doing it at times that are clearly not high load - like mid morning weekdays and now 3 in the afternoon when everyone is off 4wding.

What I do not understand is why you can log on but then you are thrown out when you do something (like trying to respond to a thread) or looking at a new post.

Incisor I appreciate you are aware of the issue and intend to hopefully deal with it in a future upgrade but is becoming worse now (seems to be worse since your last major upgrade.

CHeers

Garry

[Slunnie]

I still can't post. I think I'll go and do more fencing. :D

[MickS]

Two threads running on this....merge ????

[abaddonxi]

I still can't post. I think I'll go and do more fencing. :D

I can't fence,

http://www.personal.psu.edu/bmh5054/fencingfight.jpg (http://www.personal.psu.edu/bmh5054/fencing.html)

maybe I'll put up another post.

[Pedro_The_Swift]

:Rolling:

[abaddonxi]

:Rolling:


What, Pedro speechless?

:D:D:D

[bee utey]

Hey Inc, I think your steampunk server needs some more coal...boiler pressure is dropping!:p

[Pedro_The_Swift]

What, Pedro speechless?

:D:D:D

was a great "post";):lol2:

[Redback]

I'm getting similar issues, also the smileys that appear next to where you put in the text aren't all downloading.

Oh and no thanks button, but I'm guessing everyone has this issue.

Baz.

[Warb]

I'm new to the forum, but I have to say it seems very slow, but all the graphics and adverts over my oh_so_slow satellite connection are probably at least partly responsible

I have also noticed that in IE9 external links do not work, they get hijacked by "viglink" and just result in a tab with an error. This doesn't seem to happen in Firefox 5.0, and in IE 9 I have never seen it on any other website. This may be something specific to my PC, so I'll check it out.

More annoying, however, is that when writing a post, if I use the mouse to relocate the cursor to an earlier point in the post I often lose the cursor completely and am unable to type. Clicking on another box on the page and then clicking back to the message I am writing seems to fix it, but I'm guessing that the forum doesn't deal with IE 9 very well?

I'll try Firefox instead and see how it goes!

[outasight]

Hi Warb,

I'm not getting any speed or link problems, but I'm using Google's Chrome browser. The site has been almost completely stable & much faster since the recent upgrades.

Regards,

Les.

[incisor]

I'm new to the forum, but I have to say it seems very slow, but all the graphics and adverts over my oh_so_slow satellite connection are probably at least partly responsible

I have also noticed that in IE9 external links do not work, they get hijacked by "viglink" and just result in a tab with an error. This doesn't seem to happen in Firefox 5.0, and in IE 9 I have never seen it on any other website. This may be something specific to my PC, so I'll check it out.

More annoying, however, is that when writing a post, if I use the mouse to relocate the cursor to an earlier point in the post I often lose the cursor completely and am unable to type. Clicking on another box on the page and then clicking back to the message I am writing seems to fix it, but I'm guessing that the forum doesn't deal with IE 9 very well?

I'll try Firefox instead and see how it goes!

i dont see this sort of behaviour when i use ie9 logged in or as a guest...

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

anyone else seeing the viglink thing?

[reubsrover]

i dont see this sort of behaviour when i use ie9 logged in or as a guest...

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

anyone else seeing the viglink thing?

Yep, I was (not doing it tonight) but it hasn't been doing it all the time. If I refresh the page the links sort themselves out so not a big issue. I'm running IE8 and can't replicate the problem on Safari or Firefox.

EDIT:

Ahh here we are, here's a sample non working link, seems to occur when the page doesn't load completely as I refreshed it and the link now works.

Don't know if it'll tell you anything, it's quite a long link to nowhere.

http://api.viglink.com/api/click?format=go&drKey=838&loc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aulro.com%2Fafvb%2Fgeneral-chat%2F133617-something-fishy-about-d3-hse-2.html&v=1&libid=1313574444263&out=%2F%2Fapi.viglink.com%2Fapi%2Fclick%3Fformat%3 Dgo%26drKey%3D838%26loc%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.a ulro.com%252Fafvb%252Fgeneral-chat%252F133617-something-fishy-about-d3-hse-2.html%26v%3D1%26libid%3D1313574443757%26out%3Dhtt p%253A%252F%252Fwww.ebay.com.au%252Fitm%252FLand-Rover-Discovery-3-2005-HSE-%252F260834189429%253Fpt%253DAU_Cars%2526hash%253D item3cbaede075%26ref%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.aulr o.com%252Fafvb%252Fgeneral-chat%252F%26title%3Dsomething%2520fishy%2520about% 2520this%2520D3%2520HSE%2520-%2520Page%25202%2520-%2520Australian%2520Land%2520Rover%2520Owners%26tx t%3DeBay%2520Australia%253A%2520Buy%2520new%2520%2 526amp%253B%2520used%2520fashion%252C%2520electron ics%2520%2526amp%253B%2520home%2520d%26jsonp%3Dvgl nk_jsonp_13135746294131&ref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aulro.com%2Fafvb%2Fgeneral-chat%2F&title=something%20fishy%20about%20this%20D3%20HSE% 20-%20Page%202%20-%20Australian%20Land%20Rover%20Owners&txt=eBay%20Australia%3A%20Buy%20new%20%26amp%3B%20 used%20fashion%2C%20electronics%20%26amp%3B%20home %20d&jsonp=vglnk_jsonp_13135746294152

[outasight]

Just tried the site in IE9 & all is perfect here too. Links working as expected. Fair enough if they are non-existant sites etc. like the example, but others I just tried do the same as they've always done, here & in Chrome.

You see the word "viglink" on the new tab itself as it opens & then the actual page(link)is loaded.

[incisor]

test pic upload

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachment.php?attachmentid=38053&stc=1&d=1313581952

[Warb]

The issue is not with pics, it is with links to external data. For example, I was looking at a thread about leaf springs (http://www.aulro.com/afvb/general-chat/35941-leaf-springs-series-vehicles.html), and there is a link to an external page talking about PTFE pads (actually UHMW tape) between the leaves. The link is labelled as "here", but when hovered over it shows EITHER the actual link (something on expeditionlandrovers, from memory) or a long viglink string. In IE9 it seems to try to use the entire viglink string which just errors...... When the page is first loaded, hovering over the link shows it correctly as www.expedit...etc (http://www.expedit...etc)., but if I click on "open in new tab", it opens the viglink string which errors, and subsequently the link shows the full viglink string when hovered over.

Another issue, as I was also surprised at the speed of the forum, a quick and rough check indicates that loading a forum page transfers about 300-500K of data. That explains why it takes so long to load over a satellite link! Most forum pages use more like 50K to load a page! It looks like the various graphics, ads, commercial add-ons (doubleclick etc., and boy are there a lot on this site!) that are present on the site have caused a fair degree of "bloat". Whilst this may not impact an ADSL2 user, I would imagine that it increases the loading on the server and it certainly does impact those of us stuck with high latency satellite connections!

I realise that I am a new user, so it's not really my place to complain, but in addition to being a Land Rover owner and farmer, I'm also a retired IT consultant and happy to offer any assistance that I can, if it is needed or wanted!

[outasight]

I tried that specific link from that thread both here in Chrome & in IE9 & all is ok there too for me.
Not sure what to suggest other than if you really want to use IE9 go to tools/internet options/advanced tab & then click on "Reset" to reset all IE settings ... This has been known to solve a few strange IE problems before.

As for the speed & page load thing, I agree there is often a fair bit loaded for each page compared to some forums. Not much we can do there.

Incisor, you host this on your very own server/s don't you?

Regards,

Les.

[Warb]

As of right now the link is also working for me, but when I made the post above, and over the last couple of days since I discovered the forum, it didn't..... I have made no changes to any configuration setting, by the way!

Hmmmm.......

[incisor]

Yep hosted on my own servers in a rck in pipe networks rackspace creek street brisbane, sitting right beside an array of servers belonging to most of the large independant isps

The bloat, is what pays to keep the place alive

Better slow for some than not at all i am afraid, sorry

[Warb]

As for the speed & page load thing, I agree there is often a fair bit loaded for each page compared to some forums. Not much we can do there.

It is probably the unfortunate consequence of hosting large numbers of ads and other commercial content, which I'm guessing are required to fund the site.

It's not the worst I've seen though, one site (an Australian optics dealer) loaded 3mb+ on it's home page. On investigation it was a revolving slideshow of about 5 photos, all of which were more or less "straight off the camera" and had not been correctly resized!! That site was simply not useable from a satellite connection, but the owner had no idea because it "worked fine for him"....... he was sitting next to the server on a gigabit link!

Edit:

"The bloat, is what pays to keep the place alive"

Thought so!

[incisor]

for non subscribers, an absolute worst case scenario should see 7 adverts on one page at least 2 of which should be text based.

subscribers only see three from memory, i have ads turned on so i can see what is going on...

many sites have upwards of 10 or 15 as a maximum

i use the minimum i can get away with for the $ return i require to maintain and upgrade the place.

and then sometimes i cant upgrade at the required rate, but....

[Warb]

It's not the ads per se that cause the problem, it's the amount of data transmitted and the number of transactions required. A satellite internet connection (no matter what "they" tell us) downloads at a few hundred kilobits/second, and has a latency of 1.5seconds+. So to load a page that transfers 500Kbytes, and does so in a large number of transactions from perhaps five or more different web sites (all the google/doubleclick servers, the ad servers themselves and then the various tracking sites) results in very poor performance and slow page load times. Also at 500Kb per page it burns through the tiny data allowance that we satellite users are sold......

Having said all that, I still prefer living in an area where satellite is my only option, so I guess it's a price I have to pay..

However, if "subscribers" are exempt from all the ad and tracking, I'd be interested to hear about that option. This web site seems like a very good resource, and being able to use it without burning my data allowance or having to wait 45 seconds for a page to load (I've just timed it!) has to be worth something!

[incisor]

i know how satellite latency works, i was an ISP for years and got my backup bandwidth via satellite before the yanks grabbed it all for some invasion in the middle east :p

do your self a favour and set up a small proxy box at home, linux box with squid will do the job....

it will help you heaps ;)

i need the tracking to attract advertisers, and i need the advertisers to pay the bills.

[LSD_AUTOMOTIVE]

Links don't work for me either if they're external. Like in people's profiles or signatures that link to an external site. I've been having this issue for a little while. I removed our external links because they didn't work

[LOVEMYRANGIE]

I'm using ForumRunner coz Dave forced me to... Bring back TT!!
Pics only load as icons but are OK if i tap on it and I can't see my forum based signature, however I can see everyone else's. Was fine on TT.

[LOVEMYRANGIE]

I'm using ForumRunner coz Dave forced me to... Bring back TT!!
Pics only load as icons but are OK if i tap on it and I can't see my forum based signature, however I can see everyone else's. Was fine on TT.

Trying this one thru Safari. My signature link opens fine also.

Still no signature thru BoringBlunder.

[rick130]

It is probably the unfortunate consequence of hosting large numbers of ads and other commercial content, which I'm guessing are required to fund the site.

It's not the worst I've seen though, one site (an Australian optics dealer) loaded 3mb+ on it's home page. On investigation it was a revolving slideshow of about 5 photos, all of which were more or less "straight off the camera" and had not been correctly resized!! That site was simply not useable from a satellite connection, but the owner had no idea because it "worked fine for him"....... he was sitting next to the server on a gigabit link!

Edit:

"The bloat, is what pays to keep the place alive"

Thought so!

I was on dial up till about three months ago so feel your pain, my workaround was FF and No Script to block the ads but on those sites like the optics site you mentioned above I often just gave up.

I'm now on ADSL, paying for ADSL2+ on ADSL 1 speeds and lucky to have that.
Telstra claimed the losses were too great for ADSL, the story of eventually getting ADSL is a saga unto itself spanning months and lots of phone calls and emails and just a little luck........

[LOVEMYRANGIE]

Thanks Dave! Jacks back!
Still can't see my actual account signature tho so thinking it might be a BoringBlunder thing. Strange however....

Using Capitals, the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse or helping your uncle jack off a horse...

[incisor]

Thanks Dave! Jacks back!

there you go...

now stop you whining for a while :D:D:D:D:D:D

fix up the other programs problems and give the SysAdmin some control over how it behaves and i will put it back online.

[LOVEMYRANGIE]

They have just done an update for the app so presume they may have done server mods to.

Using Capitals, the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse or helping your uncle jack off a horse...