Has anyone else had slow downloads of  video's the last few days??? Both Herbiceps and Femflex are really slow?? Have not been on sites in the last month or so, so i don't know how long this has been like this??  Mike , Tre , help me out here???

I think it may be in the overall DtV system. I'm in MuscleTease right now, as well as HB, and download times there also are real slow.

I checked my numbers - I've still got twice as much bandwidth as is being used, and the system loading is low. I'll keep an eye on this.

DtV

Not all problems like that are easily resolved.  There could be a piece of network equipment that is defective between your computer and Mike's server.  Unless you know how to test those things, it's going to be hard to locate and even harder to convince your internet provider that there is a problem to look at.  The good news is it should clear itself up in a few days as it's likely to affect other people too.

Another confirmation of slow download speeds.
It's actually been quite slow for weeks, but hasn't been much of an issue for me, mainly due to the lack of quality updates.

It's not my ISP either. I'm with Comcast in the northeast. It blazes on any standard speed test.

Still having problems with the slow speeds.  I have better upload speeds than Herbiceps does now.  Late last night i was getting a whopping 49 k/bps.  If changes have been made to the service just tell us.  is all the bandwidth reserved for that webcam crap?

I have fast internet...usually 1MB/sec +. Herbiceps and Femflex downloading vids has been 50KB-80KB/sec. Normally to download 50MB vid takes me < 1 min. but the past few months with these sites 15-20 min.
Just FYI

pommes frites wrote on Nov 2^nd, 2009 at 8:06pm:


I'm sure it has nothing to do with the architecture, but rather the route between you and the servers.  It may be something out of DTV's control.  If you are capable of doing some troubleshooting and sending that information to DTV, it may go a long way towards fixing this for you. 

Assuming you're using Windows, the tracert command would be helpful

tracert www.herbiceps.com

Send the output from that information to DTV. 

From my colo server in Madison, WI, I'm only 5 hops away with  around 100ms latency
From my home address, it's about 14 hops with around 200ms latency.

The latency is a factor of the distance AND peering agreements that different ISP's have with each other.  One of the ISP's in the middle of the route may have changed something OR they may have a problem with a piece of network equipment.

The fact that everyone isn't affected indicates that the problem is more local to you than it is a system wide failure.