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Re: Extremely slow down loads

Postby caylor02 » Mon May 21, 2012 3:20 pm

I'm still have a huge amount of trouble with slow downloads.

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Re: Extremely slow down loads

Postby Hot Trout » Mon May 21, 2012 3:57 pm

I just checked the logs for the past several days. Although the weekend was very busy (it always is) the server speeds seem very good today and there is no obvious reason why it should still be so slow for you.

One big question I have is, how many downloads are you using at the same time. Remember that multiple downloads from the same IP will be controlled by the ISP on purpose. This is to stop people 'scraping' or 'leeching' the website.

Try downloading just two roms at a time. Also if you are using a download manager then please stop as the servers will ban you automatically.

I hope this sheds some light.
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Re: Extremely slow down loads

Postby vadiemem_11 » Wed May 23, 2012 9:14 am

Most computers actually run slow because of a hidden part of your system, which is constantly being used by Windows. This part of your PC is called the "registry" and is the central database for Windows, which stores everything from your latest emails to your desktop wallpaper. It's one of the most important parts of Windows and can easily make your PC run slow.The more corrupt registry files your computer has, the more it struggles to read them.The files which makes it run slower and slower. To fix this, you simply need to use a registry cleaner . These are small software tools which actually work by scanning through the registry and fixing any bad files that are in there. This then allows Windows to read as many files as it wants, when it wants to.
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Re: Extremely slow down loads

Postby Kherr » Tue May 29, 2012 2:13 pm

Just letting you know HT, the whole site is still EXCEEDINGLY slow for me. Registry cleaned and all. I keep this bad boy in check, so I know it's not my end... (especially since it's ONLY this website that goes really slow...)
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Re: Extremely slow down loads

Postby Hot Trout » Tue May 29, 2012 4:59 pm

I agree with you at the minute and I suspect that someone is leeching but I have been unable to locate them as of yet. I will keep looking.
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Re: Extremely slow down loads

Postby Hot Trout » Tue May 29, 2012 6:12 pm

Update,

I found two users in Japan that although had paid for a membership were no the less just constantly scraping the site down to their media PC's 25/7.

One had downloaded 625GB in 14 days and the other had downloaded over 1000GB since May 04th :shock:

Both are now blacklisted.
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Re: Extremely slow down loads

Postby JAHGoVeg » Wed May 30, 2012 6:09 am

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Re: Extremely slow down loads

Postby Kherr » Wed Jun 06, 2012 2:19 am

Yea, the site does seem to be running a bit quicker, but still not like it used to be... I'd suggest just a little more digging, just thinking...

Thanks for finding out what was causing it. :3
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Re: Extremely slow down loads

Postby stinow » Wed Jun 06, 2012 9:16 am

Hot Trout wrote:Update,

I found two users in Japan that although had paid for a membership were no the less just constantly scraping the site down to their media PC's 25/7.

One had downloaded 625GB in 14 days and the other had downloaded over 1000GB since May 04th :shock:

Both are now blacklisted.


Good job on finding those guys lad!

Trying to leech the whole site.. and then propably profiting of it also, bastards.

GJ 2u :thumbup:
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Re: Extremely slow down loads

Postby Hot Trout » Wed Jun 06, 2012 10:05 am

It is so hard to locate the IP's causing the 24/7 downloads. The raw log file (txt format) for this site for one month is over 3GB :shock:

You heard me correctly, over 3000MB of txt file that needs to be filtered through to find the offending IP's. It takes my monster work PC 4 minutes to import the file into Excel. :wtf:
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