For the past few days, I've noticed that access to the Internet seems 
really slow. From work *and* from home. So that's two different 
computers, with different Internet connections. (They are both connected 
through British Telecom - but one is a business-grade connection, while 
the other is residential.)

Has anybody else noticed a serious slowdown? I seem to have to click 
some links multiple times before I get a page. And yet, all the ping 
times I've looked at seem normal. Very odd...

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> For the past few days, I've noticed that access to the Internet seems 
> really slow. From work *and* from home. So that's two different 
> computers, with different Internet connections. (They are both connected 
> through British Telecom - but one is a business-grade connection, while 
> the other is residential.)
> 
> Has anybody else noticed a serious slowdown? I seem to have to click 
> some links multiple times before I get a page. And yet, all the ping 
> times I've looked at seem normal. Very odd...

Saturday I noticed slowness and failed connections to a site hosted in
the UK. Possibly unrelated, of course.

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Invisible wrote:
> For the past few days, I've noticed that access to the Internet seems 
> really slow. From work *and* from home. So that's two different 
> computers, with different Internet connections. (They are both connected 
> through British Telecom - but one is a business-grade connection, while 
> the other is residential.)
> 
> Has anybody else noticed a serious slowdown? I seem to have to click 
> some links multiple times before I get a page. And yet, all the ping 
> times I've looked at seem normal. Very odd...

Your problem is probably at the other end of your connection.  Or you're 
getting more impatient as time goes by.

Regards,
John

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Invisible wrote:
> For the past few days, I've noticed that access to the Internet seems 
> really slow. From work *and* from home. So that's two different 
> computers, with different Internet connections. (They are both connected 
> through British Telecom - but one is a business-grade connection, while 
> the other is residential.)
> 
> Has anybody else noticed a serious slowdown? I seem to have to click 
> some links multiple times before I get a page. And yet, all the ping 
> times I've looked at seem normal. Very odd...
Well. There is normal and normal. Tracert is often a better gauge than 
ping, since ping only hits 4 times, then gives up, and if the problem 
happens before or after the pings... Using a trace I was getting * - no 
response, from about 1 in 30 of the trace pings, but I couldn't pin down 
the precise point in the network that was causing it. Odds are someone's 
server was overloaded in the backbone, and it effected a lot of people 
piping stuff through there, but it never got "critical" enough for the 
system to route around it.

-- 
void main () {

     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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