Does anyone have any numbers for the amount of people that were on the internet on Tuesday? I know that I wasn’t able to get to any of the news sites all day on Tuesday.
I have a DSL at work and had NO trouble at all getting onto any site. I went to CNN a lot.
At home I have a modem and I had trouble till around 11pm(CDT) after that no trouble at all.
I am in Chicago.
I work for a local ISP, and while many specific news sites were pretty busy, our overall bandwith usages was only %60 of the previous Tuesday (it was even less than Sunday night, which is usually the lowest of the week). There was much higher usage on the mail servers, but less web, which makes sense. If you want to watch news, most people will turn on the TV. Those going on the Internet are usually those at work or other places without a TV close by.
I’ve got an ADSL connection in China. As of 10:00 am Tuesday, MSN had not updated the story. CNN website would not connect. I had trouble getting the wire services. Bloomberg was no problem.
It was really slow for a couple of hours. I don’t have a TV and I was getting all info off of the web.
See graphs of traffic index, response time, and packet loss for the last week here: http://www.internettrafficreport.com/cgi-bin/tr_graphpage.pl?score/7 Note: the lower the traffic index, the slower the connection.
From what I read, and this is from memory, overall internet traffic increased only slightly. The inability of people to get to news sites was due to server congestion at those sites, not due to any overloading of the network infrastructure.
There were some problems with long-haul T1 and T3 connections, but these appear to have been principally due to switching overloads in the phone network caused by unusually high voice traffic and were not related to the level of data traffic.