Started last night?

[Simon]

Sorry guys, I'm not technically adept enough to give any advice on this, other than to say that as far as we are aware, IDNet are working on the Microsoft sites problem, which may in turn, rectify things in general.  I will notify them of this thread, and hopefully they will make a statement in the morning.

[Danni]

Mine seems to be better now, with websites loading properly, Microsoft sites (and MSN Messenger) working, and a more normal speed:

Results Image not loaded Test1 comprises of Best Effort Test:  -provides background information.
    Your DSL connection rate: 8128 kbps(DOWN-STREAM),  832 kbps(UP-STREAM)
    IP profile for your line is - 7150 kbps
    Actual IP throughput achieved during the test was - 6624 kbps

[Arthix]

Aye, back to normal at my end too .

[Rik]

See the announcement regarding congestion here.

Hopefully, the problems will be gone in a few days.

[Simon]

Hopefully, so will the Olympics! 

[Rik]

Indeed.

[Inactive]

Hopefully, so will the Olympics! 

Agreed.. 

[David]

See the announcement regarding congestion here.

Hopefully, the problems will be gone in a few days.

Thanks for this Rik having a few niggles but thought it was my end...........I hate the Olympics....not because it is having an effect on my speed.....I just hate the Olympics 

[Rik]

You are not alone, David. 

[David]

Thats spooky,better tell Den.................everyone has gone out and Im not alone 

[Rik]

You're never alone with an IDNetter.

[David]

Or a Strand 

[Rik]

I remember it well. Though why anyone would want to be with a high water mark always puzzled me.

[Inactive]

Or a Strand 

Showing your age David..  

[David]

No just old stock 

[XR219]

See the announcement regarding congestion here.

Hopefully, the problems will be gone in a few days.

Hi Rik, and thanks for this. I'm still baffled as to why the MS sites were blocked though? Any word on why this happened? It appeared that routing was in place (i.e. they were reachable) unless you were using HTTP. Call in morbid curiosity, but would be nice to know why, if you can share that info with us.

Cheers

[XR219]

I don't profess to know what much of the conversation above means, but the router rebooting bit made my ears prick up.

Since today's speed problems started, the router on one of my lines has been rebooting most times it loses sync, which it has never done before. Usually it just resyncs without anything else happening. It seems too much of a coincidence for this to be a failure of the router. Any ideas?

Router is a Netgear DG834PN.

OT

Hi Mate, i never really got to the bottom of it, and as i said, the Linksys router has made one hell of a difference. I've seen this before (years ago) on ethernet networks where switch ports were set to auto negociate speed / duplex (i.e. 10/100 Full/Half) There was no standard RFC for this hand shake and sometimes certain network cards would just restart because the couldn't negociate the speed with the switch.
One thing that definately made a difference is make sure your router is set to DHCP, even though you have a static address. This is because almost all ISP who provide static addresses are actually not providing statics, its a type of DHCP reservation, meaning that they know everytime your device connects, to allocate you the same address. Worth a go. 

[Rik]

Hi Rik, and thanks for this. I'm still baffled as to why the MS sites were blocked though? Any word on why this happened? It appeared that routing was in place (i.e. they were reachable) unless you were using HTTP. Call in morbid curiosity, but would be nice to know why, if you can share that info with us.

The initial information I had suggested a routing problem. By this morning, though, I was told the problem lay with MS servers being flaky, worsened by the Olympic effect. TBH, I'm not sure what the actual cause was as I have heard of similar issues with VM customers, but not ISPs like Zen.

[XR219]

The initial information I had suggested a routing problem. By this morning, though, I was told the problem lay with MS servers being flaky, worsened by the Olympic effect. TBH, I'm not sure what the actual cause was as I have heard of similar issues with VM customers, but not ISPs like Zen.

Cheers Rik... guess we'll just wait and see. 

[Gary]

The initial information I had suggested a routing problem. By this morning, though, I was told the problem lay with MS servers being flaky, worsened by the Olympic effect. TBH, I'm not sure what the actual cause was as I have heard of similar issues with VM customers, but not ISPs like Zen.

Running on O2/Be Rick i had no issue with Microsoft or msn sites or Live messenger yesterday, so if it was flaky MS servers did it only affect IDNet and MS?

[wrtpeeps]

If it was MS servers, surely everyone would be affected.

[Gary]

If it was MS servers, surely everyone would be affected.

I suppose it depends how its all routed, but its a bit beyond me, Rik knows more about this sort of thing

[Rik]

No I don't. I can't understand why it would only affect some ISPs, the only halfway logical explanation I can come up with is that particular peering arrangements are suffering while others are not.

[Gary]

No I don't. I can't understand why it would only affect some ISPs, the only halfway logical explanation I can come up with is that particular peering arrangements are suffering while others are not.

Yes you do you just typed Peering arrangements 

[Rik]

 

Them I understand... sort of.