BaggyGreen Website.

[kaysee]

Is it just me or is www.baggygreen.com the worlds slowest website?

I have and ADSL connection and this website ALWAYS takes ages to load, if it does load and I don't have to refresh the page.

Every link to any of the current matches takes ages too... so frustrating. BTW I realise it is being updated constantly but surely they can devise a better site then the current one.

SKC

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

Nope, it's not just you. It happens to me as well.

 

[jim boy]

Baggy Green is just one section of the broader cricinfo site. they recently introduced "faster" connections but you have to pay for it and since then the slower connections have gotten slower.

One way of getting around it is to fish around for less busy sites as the site is mirrored around the world. Do this by changing the www-aus first part of the URL to another mirror such as www-nz, www-sl, www-uk, www-usa, www-ind, www-pak or www-rsa. Try to avoid countries where the local team is actually involved in a match at that very moment. Good idea to go for sites where in that country it is the middle of the night. You can even fish around within the local site by putting a number after the country. For example instead of www-aus., try www-aus3, this will direct you to, hopefully, a less busy server.

It works for me!

 

[ramjet]

www.thescore.com.au
much quicker with much the same info (although minus the batting pie charts etc i think. so if you dont care about them, its the go)

 

[hourn]

yes, the whole CricInfo server has slowed down dramatically the past few months as someone said they have introduced payment to view CricInfo with decent connections and the non-paying customer has been screwed.

Unfortunately, but if they wanna run their web-site in theri manner then there is nothing that we can do.

I have cable internet and CricInfo is slow enough with that.

 

[markstaners]

Yeah i have broadband and it takes an eternity, Baggygreen is probably the worst site speed wise in Australia, dead set shocking.

 

[jim boy]

Oddly have just gone to the site and it is much faster than it has been for months!!

 

[wagstaff]

Originally posted by Jim Boy
Oddly have just gone to the site and it is much faster than it has been for months!!

Funny, I was noting the same thing when I hooked onto it for several hours tonight. And with two Test matches going on no less.

 

[Richie Benaud]

BaggyGreen is a marvellous website, easilly one of the best websites I've been to anywhere in the world.

 

[Hawkas]

Terrible!! It appears to be linked to the ninemsn website - I can't even load that one!!

 

[PC28]

just use the www.acb.com.au address

loads up first go for me

 

[you_idiot]

Loads OK and very quickly for me.

What browser are you using, Kaycee? I'm using Netscape 6.2, and I have no problems while using that...

Cheers,
William

 

[jim boy]

Hmm, now runnning slow again.

The problem seems to be that for non-paying viewers, you always get directed to the hugely overcrowded usa mirror, even though it may say www-aus in the address by, if you click on the content and view properties, you'll see it's actually www-usa. It might have been quick before becuase the techos left out the relevant code that redirects.

Now I have worked out a way around this, but be warned, it's fairly technical in nature.

You need to get your PC to think that it's going to the USA site, when in fact it's going to another site.

To do this, search for a file called Hosts. In Windows95/98/ME you may only find a file called Hosts.sam. This is a sample version of the file and can be used

Right click on the file and choose the the "Open with" option. A window will pop-up asking which program you'd like to use, choose Notepad, but make sure the "Always use this program to open these files" checkbox is not selected.

In notepad on the the line underneath where it has "127.0.0.1 localhost", put

202.124.160.142 www-usa.cricket.org www.baggygreen.com.au

Save the file and close. If the file you were using was the hosts.sam file, you should rename the file to hosts, dropping the ".sam". Shut down your browser and and restart it.

The IP address used is the Sri Lankan mirror, you can use other mirrors if you want. To get their IP address, you have to open a command window and ping one of the other mirrors.

After doing the above the speed of my access has improved remarkably.

 

[catattack]

BaggyGreen on my computer usually takes longer than other sites to load, but is usually pretty good!