Websites loading slow tonight?

Aaron · Feb 26, 2011, 01:22:09

Have noticed a few websites taking an abnormal amount of time to connect to, either 30 seconds or just fails and shows a blank page for the last 15 minutes.

Anyone else getting this too?

esh · Feb 26, 2011, 01:23:19

I had some glitches a moment ago. Not sure what's going on. Websites I could view a few minutes ago aren't available anymore, but the site is still up according to web-based tools.

juiceuk · Feb 26, 2011, 01:24:47

yep, facebook a few other websites and ps3 wont log on. some load straight away some not at all

karvala · Feb 26, 2011, 01:25:41

Yes, I'm getting it too. Seems to be happening with some, but not all, sites. Started some time within the last hour.

Reya · Feb 26, 2011, 01:25:53

I'm noticing a lot of US sites won't load (Twitter, Livejournal, Internet Traffic Report, Second Life - those are the ones I've just tried to ping and they all had 100% packet loss). UK sites seem okay at the moment. Looks like something fell over between Blighty and SoCal

PatWard · Feb 26, 2011, 01:29:35

Can't connect to battle.net, got booted from playing WoW a few minutes ago. Some US sites not loading, can't access Orange email etc. Something's up.

esh · Feb 26, 2011, 01:29:53

I can access the sites fine from a JA net link. I'm getting unknown host from a DNS response on this line though.

Desaan · Feb 26, 2011, 01:32:06

Having the same problems, everything is 404'ing (well at least the stuff I'm trying to view is) and it's been like this since around midnight.

http://www.shopto.net/ 404's
http://www.scnsrc.net/category/films/ 404's
http://www.gametrailers.com/ 404's

It's pretty knackered at the moment.

esh · Feb 26, 2011, 01:34:11

Yeah, it's not just DNS - I can't access the IPs either. Either IDNet or BT routing has gone kaput. A friend on LLU is okay so it's not a general UK thing.

Desaan - I can access gamestrailers but not the other two.

Reya · Feb 26, 2011, 01:35:14

Well I hope this forum doesn't go down the tubes as well, because I just checked it on my 3G phone and am getting 'could not locate remote server' error messages. No way of checking the forum if my net goes bloop? Argh!

Desaan · Feb 26, 2011, 01:39:01

Something funky is definitely up, I can access gametrailers now whereas before it would 404 over and over for 10 minutes of trying (other two still don't work)

I can't even access http://my.ebay.co.uk but can connect to http://nfl.com (obvious U.S hosted site)

What gives?

sof2er · Feb 26, 2011, 01:41:53

Thought it was just me, but yeah I can't access some web sites either. They work fine from my 3G, a tracert indicates timeout after IDNet Telehouse.

JamesAllen · Feb 26, 2011, 01:43:01

Glad to see it's not just me.

Definitely something weird with routing. All my DNS has gone kaput as I use a free DNS service which must be based in the US or something. I can nslookup the default idnet DNS servers but a lot of addresses are failing completely, so I assume a routing issue is stopping it being able to get to the root level servers.

Wonder how wide spread this is.

esh · Feb 26, 2011, 01:43:38

Perhaps peering has gone haywire again. Or the recently rebooted gw5 is misbehaving. I guess it's time for an early night!

zappaDPJ · Feb 26, 2011, 01:44:56

There's certainly an outage somewhere.

JamesAllen · Feb 26, 2011, 01:45:13

Quote from: esh on Feb 26, 2011, 01:43:38
Perhaps peering has gone haywire again. Or the recently rebooted gw5 is misbehaving. I guess it's time for an early night!

LOL that is not a bad idea at all. I should be in bed now anyway really as I have Parkour training on Saturdays.. Lots of jumping around to be done. Makes a nice change from sitting on my arse on the Internet all day.

Hopefully it'll all be sorted by morning.. Ok it's morning now, but hopefully later in the morning then..

Kaltern · Feb 26, 2011, 01:45:56

Hi folks, just joined IDnet... and yes I can't log onto PSN or visit many websites either. Video streaming was screwy just after midnight too.

I won't let this negative experience sway my initial thought of IDnet

zappaDPJ · Feb 26, 2011, 01:48:09

Quote from: JamesAllen on Feb 26, 2011, 01:43:01
Wonder how wide spread this is.

I'm currently talking to over 20 other people via comms, all on different ISPs and I'm the only one that appears to be having problems.

mrapoc · Feb 26, 2011, 01:50:00

Same here

intermittent loading of facebook

can't log in to games

cant get on the forums of games..

Annoying!?

zappaDPJ · Feb 26, 2011, 01:50:24

Quote from: Kaltern on Feb 26, 2011, 01:45:56
Hi folks, just joined IDnet... and yes I can't log onto PSN or visit many websites either. Video streaming was screwy just after midnight too.

I won't let this negative experience sway my initial thought of IDnet

JamesAllen · Feb 26, 2011, 01:51:10

Quote from: zappaDPJ on Feb 26, 2011, 01:48:09
I'm currently talking to over 20 other people via comms, all on different ISPs and I'm the only one that appears to be having problems.

Just at IDNet then by the sounds of it.

Kaltern · Feb 26, 2011, 01:51:57

Just tried visiting the network status site - Network Status

It didn't load

mrapoc · Feb 26, 2011, 01:53:04

ohhh dear

Desaan · Feb 26, 2011, 01:55:41

Quote from: Kaltern on Feb 26, 2011, 01:51:57
Just tried visiting the network status site - Network Status

It didn't load

Same here

I guess given the latish hour and the fact it's been like this for a few hours we won't be expecting a resolution any time soon. The IDNET service status is all green, but I guess that must be manually updated and since it hasn't been.....I guess nobody is on it.

Kaltern · Feb 26, 2011, 01:56:22

Thanks for welcome, karma feels nice against the skin....

Sounds like there is a hamster somewhere in the great Internet machine that needs feeding. Or replacing

mrapoc · Feb 26, 2011, 01:59:40

Looks like my late night gaming is ruined!

bed time for me

Kaltern · Feb 26, 2011, 02:15:09

Heh its never good when the OpenDNS website won't open either!!

I suppose I should probably try out this sleep thing... I'm not very good at it mind.

Desaan · Feb 26, 2011, 02:21:36

Well I work odd hours, so I'll be up till mid morning at least which makes it all the more frustrating that the problem hasn't been resolved or even acknowledged on the IDNET service status rss. A non functioning internet connection for me during this time of night means you may as well cut my head off because lets be honest it's not as if I can go sit in the garden or nip out to the shops for a bit, there isn't a lot to do!

Kaltern · Feb 26, 2011, 02:23:20

Well.... you COULD sit in the garden I suppose... best take a warm blanket and plenty of Bovril to keep you going though

Maiku · Feb 26, 2011, 02:23:49

Seems to be more than DNS as I sent that via a vpn and it worked, but still couldnt connect to the site (Toms hardware). Those having 404 errors are interesting, that dosnt sound like routing tho.

sof2er · Feb 26, 2011, 02:28:25

You can use http://www.daveproxy.co.uk/ or something to browse for now

Kaltern · Feb 26, 2011, 02:29:54

Tracert seems to time out after xe-1-0-0.mpr2.lhr3.uk.above.net [64.125.27.174].

Daveproxy with the network site shows a problem in Manchester - this is new as it was clear only a hour or so ago.

heartgraffiti · Feb 26, 2011, 02:31:57

Yet another issue on IDNET. These problems never seem to happen when we actually have availability to the IDNET helpline. Thank god for BTinfinity, where I'll be moving to soon.

Maiku · Feb 26, 2011, 02:40:26

Quote from: heartgraffiti on Feb 26, 2011, 02:31:57
Yet another issue on IDNET. These problems never seem to happen when we actually have availability to the IDNET helpline. Thank god for BTinfinity, where I'll be moving to soon.

As in BT's Fibre and ISP service....

I'd rather use dial-up.

SpaceMonkey · Feb 26, 2011, 02:44:28

Same problem here. Half the websites won't load, and can't connect to any blizzard server. At least MSN is working!

Have to say over the last few months i've had a number of problems with my connection dying for a few hours at a time. Mostly at night rather than at peak though. No idea if its IDNET or BT to blame but either way it's getting annoying now

heartgraffiti · Feb 26, 2011, 02:46:42

Quote from: Maiku on Feb 26, 2011, 02:40:26
As in BT's Fibre and ISP service.... I'd rather use dial-up.

Rather a service that tells me it's errors than one that completely ignores them.

Simon_idnet · Feb 26, 2011, 02:52:06

There was an outage at Linx tonight. They have now resolved the problem by replacing a switch card.

Maiku · Feb 26, 2011, 02:58:41

Quote from: Simon_idnet on Feb 26, 2011, 02:52:06
There was an outage at Linx tonight. They have now resolved the problem by replacing a switch card.

Linx are getting quite unreliable recently it seems.

Thanx for the update Simon

Desaan · Feb 26, 2011, 03:01:21

Hmmm, definitely still problems for me, pages timing out etc.

Still a lot of unreachable sites, also effecting any chance of online gaming.

It goes from slow loading to non responsive constantly.

Lona · Feb 26, 2011, 03:08:04

Same here. Been slow all day for me. $:-\$

Desaan · Feb 26, 2011, 03:10:09

I won't pretend to know who Linx are Simon, but you better go and give them another kick up the arse!

Simon_idnet · Feb 26, 2011, 03:21:13

That's the London Internet Exchange, a lot of UK traffic passes through there: https://www.linx.net/pubtools/trafficstats.html

Ruerin · Feb 26, 2011, 03:29:20

Slowly gotten better for me over the past hour, however Steam remains unable to connect at my end (along with a couple of other sites). Thanks for the info and let's hope everything is resolved soon!

e: Steam seems to be working now along with everything else. All good for me.

zappaDPJ · Feb 26, 2011, 03:32:38

Broadly speaking I think LINX (London Internet Exchange) allows ISPs to exchange data directly rather than having to rely on other networks.

Sites that were hit by the switch card failure are slowly coming back for me now so it should be the same for everyone else.

Thanks for the update Simon.

zappaDPJ · Feb 26, 2011, 03:34:48

Quote from: Ruerin on Feb 26, 2011, 03:29:20
Slowly gotten better for me over the past hour, however Steam remains unable to connect at my end (along with a couple of other sites). Thanks for the info and let's hope everything is resolved soon!

e: Steam seems to be working now along with everything else. All good for me.

That does seem to be the case here as well.

silverblade · Feb 26, 2011, 04:11:02

Mine seems to be getting worse.

I was playing an online game, and listening to an online radio station.

The game conked out several times, so gave up with that and started a shell session on a couple of remote servers. The US based one dropped the connection but the UK one stayed up so I continued working on that.

Now both are up but are veeeeeeeerrrry slow.

And the online radio is having buffering issues.

I'm guessing that even though this is supposedly fixed now, it'll probably cause problems throughout the weekend...

Steve · Feb 26, 2011, 08:02:42

heartgraffiti,Ruerin and kaltern

BTW are things working again now? It seems ok from my brief wander round.

zappaDPJ · Feb 26, 2011, 08:35:21

It seemed to be a slow fix in that it took a while for some sites to become reachable again but it all seems fine now.

Ray · Feb 26, 2011, 08:39:48

heartgraffiti,Ruerin and kaltern

Rik · Feb 26, 2011, 10:04:48

Thirded, or is that fourther?

Kaltern · Feb 26, 2011, 19:19:09

Thanks for the welcome guys

Just to report, things are still seemingly a little slow occasionally, but on the whole, things seem to be returning to normal.

Niall · Feb 26, 2011, 21:23:15

I've actually been seeing slow loading pages for various sites recently. I assumed it was due to the problems I had a few weeks ago, but it's still happening today.

www.deviantart.com
www.flickr.com
www.twitter.com
www.facebook.com
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/

All of the above have slow loading problems. Deviant art is a bit of a law unto itself though, so I can never really say if it's at their end when it's slow, considering the amount of people using it. Flickr though I've never had a problem with, but in the last few days it's been slow loading. I just tried twitter and that took a few seconds to load the homepage, and also I have echofon installed in Firefox so I don't have to visit the site. Occasionally it can't resolve the page to pull my info through, probably due to the same reason. Last night Facebook just wouldn't load at all, around 12:30am then was extremely sluggish for 10 minutes, then was slow shortly after. Yesterday afternoon I couldn't even get to the Steam forums!

There have been quite a few other sites I've had problems with too. Initially I thought it may be my routers blocking DNS IPs or something similar, but checking my logs the router hasn't blocked anything, nor the firewall or AV. I'm not sure what's causing it, but I do have the router set to auto detect DNS rather than inputting it as I used to. I suppose it could just be increased loads of these sites due to kids being off school

Rik · Feb 27, 2011, 10:51:30

Averaging about 4 seconds to load a page here, Niall, for the first and last. The rest are pretty much instant. Given the time of day I'm checking, I'd say server load or congestion are the only possible answers.

Steve · Feb 27, 2011, 10:56:38

I wonder if the first and last are solely 'across the pond' based servers?

Rik · Feb 27, 2011, 11:00:16

They're all showing as American sites for me, Steve.

esh · Mar 01, 2011, 11:55:27

Edit: no matter, some fluke server configuration glitch.

Rik · Mar 01, 2011, 12:33:49