# Anyone else having trouble getting to the Internet today? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 2, 2003, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-having-trouble-getting-to-the-internet-today/166005 "2003-04-02T17:36:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-having-trouble-getting-to-the-internet-today/166005/1 "2003-04-02T17:36:54Z")
Hardly any of my favorite sites are working and some that are won’t load completely. I can’t even open The Straight Dope main page! WTF is going on? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-having-trouble-getting-to-the-internet-today/166005/2 "2003-04-02T19:08:48Z")
Weird. My connection started working better about an hour ago but I’m still not getting everything. ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-having-trouble-getting-to-the-internet-today/166005/3 "2003-04-02T19:30:15Z")
Snopes appears to be down. Are they having ISP issues? ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-having-trouble-getting-to-the-internet-today/166005/4 "2003-04-02T21:39:50Z")
I don’t see anything more than normally amiss in North America. In fact, traffic appears to be zipping along better than normal in most areas. Could be a problem at your ISP. [http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm](http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm) ---
**Author:** ![SumLurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@SumLurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SumLurker)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-having-trouble-getting-to-the-internet-today/166005/5 "2003-04-02T22:25:43Z")
Ooh, thanks for the link, **UncleBeer**. Good stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-having-trouble-getting-to-the-internet-today/166005/6 "2003-04-02T22:30:36Z")
If you do a traceroute on the sites you’re having trouble with, you may find one or more common nodes. Perhaps one of these is acting up. Decent traceroute software will show you the packet return time for each node as well as dropped packet stats, so you may be able to locate the funky node in question. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-having-trouble-getting-to-the-internet-today/166005/7 "2003-04-02T23:01:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by UncleBeer \* > \*\*I don’t see anything more than normally amiss in North America. In fact, traffic appears to be zipping along better than normal in most areas. Could be a problem at your ISP. > > [http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm](http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm) \*\* Everything seems to have corrected itself within the past couple of hours. BTW: I’m work and we use a T1 connection. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-having-trouble-getting-to-the-internet-today/166005/8 "2003-04-02T23:05:24Z")
Oh, and for a few minutes I wasn’t getting anything at all but that was because the firewall had reset itself for some reason. It normally requires us to log in every 8 hours. Maybe we were having a firewall problem.