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[ou7shined]

Did anyone else's t'internet turn into treacle last night? It got so bad for me that at one point pages weren't even opening.

It was almost like being with my old isp again.

I'm only asking as it might have been me. I'm trying out a *ahem* new version of XP at the mo and I guess there's a chance that it might be at fault.

[Nerval]

I even started a thread last night containing the word "treacle", treacle.
A quick scan of the forum will show this.
I also mentioned CarpNet in the thread.

I'm wondering if it's a DNS problem with IDNet, tho not sure how to determine whether it is.

[Philip]

its been slow, early evening, all week for me, but returns to normal about 8pm ish

[Nerval]

and slow again now

[ou7shined]

Great minds...eh Nerval.

Well at least it isn't just me then. Mine ground to a halt around 1 or 2 this morning though, so traffic shouldn't be at fault.

[Nerval]

There's a report on AG of somebody getting a DNS failure on one of the servers.

Something's definitely not right, as browsing was fine over Christmas when it should have been really busy.

[Philip]

should betting around 5500kb/s, my exchange has been red since November, but speeds over Christmas were superb

[DorsetBoy]

Speedtest.net to Munich 5684 kbps
Speedtest.net to London 2823kbps
Toast.net to Open Hosting London 2020kbps.

Europe or Canada are fine, London poor, and looking at Speedtest.net many of the servers are missing today.

Speeds have been erratic all day so far.

[Philip]

better now, but like dorsetboy says, very erratic.

[maxping]

I have used this test with the following result -

http://specials.zdnet.co.uk/misc/band-test/speedtest.html


Your line speed:

6580.6 Kbps

[Nerval]

Well I'll go to the foot of our stairs!
After moaning all day about speeds, I got a record speed tonight

[ou7shined]

It's just starting to get bad for me again. Web pages taking 1-2 secs to come up.

[Nerval]

Know what you mean. It's erratic - sometimes OK others slow.
Can't get over the speedtest though.

[ou7shined]

Here's what speedtest.net say for me.....



ping's pretty rank but speed's only a bit (~1000) lower than what I usually get from this test

[Nerval]

Yes Rich
Pings have always been variable for me - from brilliant to awful and back again.
BT speedtest gives 4.65Mb same as other one.
But browsing still variable.
Oh well.
May just be busy as I'm not normally on at this time so can't say what's usual.

[ou7shined]

LOL I tried BT speedtest. Guess what?

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Good old BT speedtest.




Ooh! 100th post

[Philip]

back to normal now, just seems to early evenings for me.

[ou7shined]

Humph! I'm still surfing through treacle porridge.

Good for you though Doc.

[mrapoc]

Yea, last night many pages wouldnt even load and also kept losing connection to bf 2142 and xfire kept reporting a high latency between me and the servers

[ou7shined]

Huston we have a problem!

[DorsetBoy]

Yup! Speeds of only 212kbps I call a problem and my synch has dropped today,router has NOT been off though.

[spiral]

Yep i'm getting slower browsing too.

[old Bill]

After the last few days of good speeds. They have dropped like a stone tonight. Geting well below 1 meg. Is the whole world on the net again or is there a problem someware ?

[Philip]

on the slppery slope again

[ou7shined]

It's hard to know just where to post this with so many similar posts

I've had more mysterious disconnects. The last being around 1:30am.
Also I'm pulling in (what should be) a healthy torrent but it's taking forever with masses of failed hash checks. Everything feels sluggish still.

Do we have an official comment on the state of affairs yet?