• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

NCEP and EC grib download speeds.

MClarkson

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Anyone else notice NCEP(nomads) and Environment canada downloads going horribly slow over the past few weeks, especially during peak GFS and GEM download times? Ive got 2 servers... one seems to be going a little faster than the other but both are struggling... some 30-120KB/s depending on the server.
 
NOMADS always seems to burp now and then, you might do better using one of the raw data sources at NCEP?
 
I switched one of my servers over to the NCEP FTP last night, and the result was even worse. I feel like the performance goes back and forth, Ive been using nomads for the last year and a half or so, and before that the FTP was faster. But now everything seems to be crawling, at least during peak times. Off-peak is better, i'm seeing 300-900KB/s or so, at least for the GEM test I just did(4 hours after the 12Z run was available).
 
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