Page 1 of YET another strange delay on Holiday - Nestle please take a look ......

Hit refresh with 6 Seconds to go and again all I got was `loading`. I am on a massive connection (E3) at the moment and know my speeds are about as good as it gets so definitely not at my end.

This looks seriously dodgy, especially as the points were over 1.1mill and there aren`t THAT many players hitting bid at that time. This to me feels like someone is sending out a large number of packets created not using the bidding tool. Nestle please have a look at this......

KKK, what was your last bid on the hol? and at how many seconds before end?

I got the usual "endpoint cannot be reached..." message at about 8 seconds when just refreshing, clicked refresh then bid, got highest (not sure of the amount), hit refresh again and it took ages and ages, thought wouldn`t get any final bid in at all. so kept hitting Bid button at that point and must have got it back only ms before end, managed to get the last bid before winning one:

06/03/2006 18:12 WIN a £2,500 Expedia Holiday of your choice 1181900 Outbid


While refreshing only, at about 4 minutes before end it was doing the same taking ages and ages. What I am not sure is whether my last but one bid of 1,181,900 was actually made at aboout 2 or 3 seconds and the winning bid of 1,182,000 came straight after then the server gave up accepting bids or was blocked. I can`t be certain if during the fast hitting of the bid button while the refresh took forever I managed to get a bid in at all

Do you think it`s possible that there is some DOS attack being made or something to "block" bids getting to the server?

This item was edited on Monday, 6th March 2006, 20:57