Anybody else having internet issues today?

Anybody else having internet issues today?

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NiceCupOfTea

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25,298 posts

252 months

Thursday 31st January 2008
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For the last 5 or 6 hours I've been having real issues with pages coming up "not found" almost immediately, or timing out.

Not just PH either, google and lots of other sites too. Router has been rebooted, no issues according to Demon. My dad had brief outage earlier on demon but in a different part of the country... Wife has similar issues on her laptop too, so not the PC.

Anybody else?

Firkin Dogbolter

1,262 posts

198 months

Thursday 31st January 2008
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Me too, had trouble with quite a few sites tonight and had trouble with this one for more than a week now.

Frik

13,542 posts

244 months

Thursday 31st January 2008
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Yep, a few issues here on BT which to be honest is very rare.

Wouldn't be surprised if the weather had a large part to play...

Loach

3,357 posts

217 months

Thursday 31st January 2008
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Glad you mentioned this - I thought it was just me. Having a 'mare in here in particular.

Frik

13,542 posts

244 months

Thursday 31st January 2008
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PH is slow as hell atm, Loach. Something to do with the much higher traffic rates from so many new members.




Long time no see by the way wavey

Evil Jack

1,619 posts

229 months

Thursday 31st January 2008
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Yes mine seems very slow tonight!

Virgin/NTL Cable.

micky g

1,550 posts

236 months

Thursday 31st January 2008
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Me too - Daemon.

Can weather effect it?

bobthemonkey

3,845 posts

217 months

Thursday 31st January 2008
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Online tax return deadline (well it was anyway), higher local traffic levels prehaps?
Disruption due to the severing of some backbone cables feeding the MidEast and N.Africa?

tonyvid

9,869 posts

244 months

Thursday 31st January 2008
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bobthemonkey said:
Disruption due to the severing of some backbone cables feeding the MidEast and N.Africa?
Yeh, what is that all about? We had an email at work about our internal links to the Emirates being down indefinatly.

ETA - my BT broadband was stuffed earlier this evening.

Edited by tonyvid on Thursday 31st January 22:58

Prof Beard

6,669 posts

228 months

Thursday 31st January 2008
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I'm in a hotel on my "Mulberry" and PH seems faster than usual!

FunkyNige

8,913 posts

276 months

Thursday 31st January 2008
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Fine for me, no slower than at any other itme.
Either NTL or Sky, not really sure which one is plugged in at the mo.

jumplead

1,823 posts

213 months

Thursday 31st January 2008
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There is a major undersea cable out between europe/middle east/Asia so alternate routes are being used. This could mean saturated links at Internet Exchange points around the world causing a less than optimal browsing experience to parts of the internet. (the internet in general, more than likely not affecting PH or UK traffic) If you've had trouble speaking with a Indian call centre at all today that'll be why.

I do know BT have been having problems over the last few days at a few of their UK broadband aggregation sites. But I thought they had fixed it in the early hours of this morning.

I blame the cold front coming in from Siberia

trooperiziz

9,456 posts

253 months

Thursday 31st January 2008
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tonyvid said:
bobthemonkey said:
Disruption due to the severing of some backbone cables feeding the MidEast and N.Africa?
Yeh, what is that all about? We had an email at work about our internal links to the Emirates being down indefinatly.

ETA - my BT broadband was stuffed earlier this evening.

Edited by tonyvid on Thursday 31st January 22:58
Somebody cut the wrong cable, 60% of asia has no internet and it isn't going to be fixed.

I laughed, then stopped laughing and got genuinely scared when I thought about that happening to me wink


moparmick

690 posts

234 months

Thursday 31st January 2008
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I have just upgraded from 2 to 20 meg and it's pathetic, i keep speed testing it and the best has been 7 meg and most of the time it's around 3.
Mick

jumplead

1,823 posts

213 months

Thursday 31st January 2008
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tonyvid said:
bobthemonkey said:
Disruption due to the severing of some backbone cables feeding the MidEast and N.Africa?
Yeh, what is that all about? We had an email at work about our internal links to the Emirates being down indefinatly.

Edited by tonyvid on Thursday 31st January 22:58
I had the same problem, but at 4am this morning. Bloody Time Zones frown

It's unlikely to be indefinitely, but there will be some mega latency on the backup connections between Emirates and Europe, which i believe is still satellite

jas xjr

11,309 posts

240 months

Thursday 31st January 2008
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been struggling last couple of days,just thought it was rubbish aol.

central

16,744 posts

218 months

Thursday 31st January 2008
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Same for me. frown

NiceCupOfTea

Original Poster:

25,298 posts

252 months

Thursday 31st January 2008
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Glad it's not just me. I am used to the fact that I can go and make a cup of tea while PH loads a page, but it's all the timeouts and not founds from other sites that's odd.

Weather was atrocious down here in SE London/Kent earlier - horizontal rain and lots of wind, but sounds quiet out there now...

The_Sheriff

464 posts

217 months

Thursday 31st January 2008
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jumplead said:
There is a major undersea cable out between europe/middle east/Asia so alternate routes are being used. This could mean saturated links at Internet Exchange points around the world causing a less than optimal browsing experience to parts of the internet. (the internet in general, more than likely not affecting PH or UK traffic) If you've had trouble speaking with a Indian call centre at all today that'll be why.

I do know BT have been having problems over the last few days at a few of their UK broadband aggregation sites. But I thought they had fixed it in the early hours of this morning.

I blame the cold front coming in from Siberia
It seems from the article below that a large amount of the traffic is being re routed through the US/UK
which could explain the problems.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/01/31/duba...

Loach

3,357 posts

217 months

Thursday 31st January 2008
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My broadband just collapsed for half an hour or so, and I just heard on the news that ferries are being cancelled on the Irish Sea, that trucks have been blown over on the roads. If this is connected with the weather, looks like it won't end any time soon.


Hi Frik - My life pie-chart went from gigantic slice of PH to non-existant slice of PH for a bit there - good to be back with you funny guys.