Quickstart course pages very slow to load

ronniegane

I'm finding the course very slow to navigate through, it takes 10-20 seconds to load each page/slide.
For example, this is network stats for loading page 1.17 (Installation: What to use for this course)
20 seconds to load a simple text page.

Using Firefox on Ubuntu, same problems in Chrome.

There are a couple things that stick out to me:
1. Resources download very slowly (200KB of JS between 3 and 15 seconds)
2. There are multiple duplicate files downloaded (The JS files are labeled /device_TabletPortrait/<course name>, /device_TabletLandscape/<course name> etc, so I assume it's giving me several versions of the page and deciding which one to use client-side

I have similar speed issues with the videos (lots of buffering).

I'm on a decent connection (80/30 Mbps), but I'm in New Zealand, so maybe that's part of the issue?

Is anyone else experiencing this?

luisviveropena

Hi ronniegane,

Can you try from another network, please? Just to be sure that's not the issue. I'm in Peru and it works good for me.

Regards,
Luis.

ronniegane

Sorry for the late reply - yes Luis, it does seem to be network specific. The LMS/quickstart pages seem to load fine at other houses, or tethering off my phone. So could be something weird with my ISPs routing, I guess? House with the slow loading is using Spark internet.

I'm not sure what the other possibilities are, or if there's any possibility to fix it. I guess I will stick to doing this course at other houses or tethering to my mobile.

luisviveropena

Hi ronniegane,

So could be something weird with my ISPs routing, I guess?

It looks like that. I don't think we can do something to fix it, as you already verified that this is network specific (and not the platform itself). But if I were you, I would try changing the DNS servers with Google's or OpenDNS's.

Regards,
Luis.