I’ve got a cable modem, and I’m having all kinds of problems connecting to websites tonight. I figured that it was simply something screwy with my box or ISP, but my mother (in Ohio) IM’d me that she was having a similar problem with her dialup connection. A friend of mine in Oklahoma on a dial up, said that she was having problems matching those of mine and my mother’s, while a 3rd friend in California, using DSL is surfing along just merrily.
Dialup here. No problems to speak of. I just ran a couple of random traceroutes just for the hell of it, and the ping times don’t seem out of the ordinary. Even the SDMB is loading quickly for me today.
DSL here. Surprisingly, it seems to be moving along just fine. It’s been sucking big time lately, especially in the last few weeks.
God how I miss cable internet connection. sigh
Cable Internet here. No problems.
Actually, yeah. Cable internet here, and modem seemed to be working fine, but for about two hours it took forever to load any page (even typically fast pages like Google or the Chicago Tribune), if they loaded at all.
Everything seems fine now, though.
Huh. Tell me about cable, willya? I just tonight set up my DSL hardware, and was having all sorts of problems; being a new installation, though, there are too many variables to pinpoint exactly what the cause was. At the time I signed up for my account, cable accounts were all full-up (that’s what they told me anyway), thus precluding a choice – but I’m still curious how the two compared. At times of high net traffic, would cable, DSL, or (gasp) the lowly dialup be better?
IMHO, cable modems beat anything other than a T1 connection hands down. There’s just nothing better than high speed porn. 
(P.S. It’s definately a box issue in my case. I hooked my cable modem up to my other PC [oh, how I wish I could afford wifi] and had no problems maintaining my connection, so I’m guessing that my problem was software related. Hopefully I’m right, and I’ve uninstalled the stuff causing the problem.)
Heck, most cable modems beat a T1. I get twice the speed of a T1 on the download. And for under $50 a month.
I’ll be the first to admit it. There is some kind of problem I’ve noticed, but mostly within porn sites. As several of my favorite porn sites or offshore(not the illegal stuff, it’s just that the Dutch and Japanese make great porn), I assumed it was on a major router or lookup service.
How could there possibly be an actual problem with the entire internet? I hope I’m being whooshed here. I could see if a large group of major servers were down, or if a really large ISP was having problems, but WTF?
I had many a call when I was doing dial-up tech support that said something like “Is the internet down?” I always thought that sort of question was incredibly ignorant. Am I being ignorant not knowing that such a failure could happen?
All day today, random webpages won’t load on the first try, but will load on the second or third try.
I just assumed another virus was afoot.
The spread of a major worm through the servers could seriously slow things down for a while, and has in the past. A major fiber-optic line being cut would cause a bit of delays too I imagine, though I’ve never heard of such a thing happening.
Line between China and Japan (which was/is the main connection to the US) got cut for about 2 weeks a few years ago. Man were things slow.
9-11 US web traffic slowed to a crawl.
Well, yeah, that was the servers being overloaded as everyone tried to send email and get on CNN to figure out what the hell was going on.
Aren’t those two countries known for their underage and shit porn, respectively? I’ve just never heard either one mentioned in the context of great porn.
Hm, was working just fine for me last night, until 9 pm / 2100 … then we left to go see Shrek 2.
Of course, it wasnt working for me when I got home last night … at least for my laptop, my roomies outside male cat got into the house and apparently had a scent marking party involving it. Yup, cat whizzed into my laptop.
No problems here right now at 5/23 3:00 AM Eastern Time.
Huh. I was having troubles similar to Apricot’s last night - pages not loading (dns lookup errors I think) and then loading on the second or third try.
I, too, had problems loading pages last night for a couple of hours. I restarted my cable modem and router and the problem seemed to clear, but I’m thinking that this might have been a fluke. My friend who uses DSL seemed to have no problems, so I had assumed that there might have been some random backbone problem that afffected my service provider (InsightBB).
I had some problems connecting to sites last night too. Hugh sites that shouldn’t have any problems like google.com & yahoo.com. Other sites were no problem. I rebooted into Linux to see if it was me and things seemed to clear up. Figured it was just Windows having a brain fart, but now I’m not so sure.