# Is Netflix down?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-netflix-down/569605>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 31, 2011, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-netflix-down/569605 "2011-01-31T04:04:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2011, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-netflix-down/569605/1 "2011-01-31T04:04:17Z")

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It won’t load for me, and damn, I wanted to watch a movie…

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**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2011, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-netflix-down/569605/2 "2011-01-31T04:09:17Z")

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It’s not loading for me but [http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/](http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/) says it’s working.

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**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2011, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-netflix-down/569605/3 "2011-01-31T04:12:05Z")

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Thanks for the answer and the great website.

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**Author:** ![sco3tt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@sco3tt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sco3tt)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2011, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-netflix-down/569605/4 "2011-01-31T04:13:04Z")

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I had timeouts when I checked it after reading your OP, but it looks to be working again now.

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**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2011, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-netflix-down/569605/5 "2011-01-31T04:16:26Z")

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I just finished streaming a movie, no problems.

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2011, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-netflix-down/569605/6 "2011-01-31T04:17:23Z")

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It’s loading for me, but very slowly and sometimes timing out.

ETA: now it seems fine.

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**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2011, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-netflix-down/569605/7 "2011-01-31T13:36:08Z")

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We’ve had Netflix Instant for two weeks and it’s done this on both Sunday evenings. We assumed it was an over-capacity thing.