Whats wrong here?

[gobd]

Me and my friend (we both live in the same city) are getting less than half our normal internet speeds and we have different ISP's. Also, neither of us can connect to any Half-life servers and about half the websites we normal visit time out. This has never happened before and i'd like to know if anyone else is experiencing EXTREME slowdowns.

[stevebakh]

hey hey

your location would make it more useful for people to answer your question! and also throw in a few more dtails for the nice people

regards

[Docsta]

u know now that you mention it...just surfin the webpages is runnin a little slow for me right now :-/

[Docsta]

nm...guess my DSL was having hicups

[gobd]

Its in seattle, WA, the problems have stopped since then but i'd like to know why the whole internet system in the town slowed down so much for nearly a full day.

[CM Weaver]

It's possible that a core router along the backbone or your ISP in that area was down. When this happens the entire toplogy of that segment must re-routed to take up the slack. Re-routing traffic takes time and is not always as optimized as if the entire network was healthy.

[mwkirchner]

Originally posted by gobd
Me and my friend (we both live in the same city) are getting less than half our normal internet speeds and we have different ISP's. Also, neither of us can connect to any Half-life servers and about half the websites we normal visit time out. This has never happened before and i'd like to know if anyone else is experiencing EXTREME slowdowns.

I am not sure if this has anything to do with your problem ... but it might.

WorldCom suffered a major commercial Internet outage beginning at 5 a.m. Thursday, October 4th, according to a company that monitors Internet performance. The problems, believed to be caused by a software glitch, are disrupting service for WorldCom's many corporate customers and may be slowing the Internet down for others, said Tom Ohlsson, vice president of marketing and business development at Matrix NetSystems, based in Austin, Texas. WorldCom, one of the major backbone providers of networks that route traffic over the Internet, did not immediately return a call for comment. As much as 65 percent to 70 percent of the world's Internet traffic runs across WorldCom's network, he said. Telecom operator WorldCom filed for the world's largest corporate bankruptcy after it buckled under a heavy debt load and a massive accounting scandal.