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Why We Are Here => Water Cooler => Topic started by: I, Brian on June 28, 2012, 11:22:38 PM

Title: Slow internet tonight?
Post by: I, Brian on June 28, 2012, 11:22:38 PM
Not sure if it's my local connection of a routing issue, but am finding the net to be very slow, and Google won't even load up for me. Or Youtube. Pages with Adsense are dragggggggging and only eventually display sans Adsense.

I'd be tempted to think that Google or Akamai might be under DDoS attack tonight - but Alertra shows Google.co.uk should be up fine.

If this is a routing issue, it's one helluva stinker by BT.

I would just how local it is?

EDIT: I can get Amazon. But not Facebook. Or even Bing. Even th3core is slow, but it loads - the others do not.
Title: Re: Slow internet tonight?
Post by: Woz on June 29, 2012, 01:09:51 AM
No probs here.
Title: Re: Slow internet tonight?
Post by: Chunkford on June 29, 2012, 08:44:15 AM
BT are having problems with their network and it's effecting certain locations across the UK, and considering most ISP rent from BT/openreach its affect other providers.
http://btbusiness.custhelp.com/app/service_status_consumer/ss_cat/2468,2470
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/5293-bt-equipment-failures-cause-outages-in-sheffield-and-london.html

Last week, everyone in my town were having problems connecting and getting dropouts left right and centre, very annoying :(
Title: Re: Slow internet tonight?
Post by: hungrygoose on June 29, 2012, 09:22:46 AM
I had issues last week too, been ok since then thooo.
Title: Re: Slow internet tonight?
Post by: Rumbas on June 29, 2012, 10:54:30 AM
I always have trouble when it rains, but that's not something you can fix? :)
Title: Re: Slow internet tonight?
Post by: Drastic on June 29, 2012, 01:04:13 PM
http://www.internettrafficreport.com/
Title: Re: Slow internet tonight?
Post by: Gurtie on July 02, 2012, 09:04:28 PM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18672173
Title: Re: Slow internet tonight?
Post by: Chunkford on July 03, 2012, 08:43:33 AM
Crazy how fickle the services we reply on can be effected by the smallest of things.