I have been working in networking for pleanty of years and I have never seen a hosting company or teleco/isp company say "yah it seems we are getting lots of complaints, we think there is a problem on our end." They like to pass the buck and say "It must be on your end." Mostly because in most cases you cant prove where the problem is. For the most part the site is really fast, and I havent seen any problems I would lodge a complaint with.... that said I dont post ads anymore, so I dont know what speed it runs at, but the classifieds always seems to run fine. In this case, kingsnake may very well be right, its not THEIR connection, but it may be THEIR isp's connection. A bit on an internet lesson here... When big ISPs connect to each other, the have whats called peer connections... most of the time they run smooth, and this is what we call the internet backbone... but sometimes there are problems with these peer links... most of the time its political junk such as "We are a bigger company now, and you are smaller, and you have to pay for your peer link now" or something along those lines... it creates problems and slows one particular area from connecting to another at any good speeds. Now why does this matter? Well if the ISP kingsnake is using has a peer that is playing games with comcast (not uncommon, most ISPs hate them) then all comcast customers will have problems accessing anything peered to them, and vise-versa. Most of the time its a lose-lose situation for the customers. In the end, sometimes webhosting companies can find a better ISP, sometimes they cant/wont. So perhaps kingsnake just has a cheap ISP... perhaps not. But for now, I would say everything looks good.

Ben

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• KS"s server is finally fixed - XtremeXteriors, Tue Jun 13 07:44:41 2006
• RE: KS"s server is finally fixed - phwyvern, Tue Jun 13 08:38:30 2006
• RE: KS"s server is finally fixed - Randall_Turner, Tue Jun 13 09:58:02 2006
• RE: KS"s server is finally fixed - toshamc, Tue Jun 13 10:27:40 2006
• Same here ... - gailt, Tue Jun 13 12:50:13 2006
• no prob's in virginia...np - wisema2297, Tue Jun 13 14:05:39 2006
• RE: KS"s server is finally fixed - phwyvern, Tue Jun 13 12:27:44 2006
• RE: KS"s server is finally fixed - Randall_Turner, Tue Jun 13 16:23:52 2006
• RE: KS"s server is finally fixed - nextworld3, Tue Jun 13 17:33:57 2006
• Same problems here..... - Eric Sandoval, Tue Jun 13 17:54:34 2006
• might as well talk to a brick wall... - crazydart, Tue Jun 13 21:33:09 2006