On Wednesday 01 October 2008 22:04:16 joachim Gwoke wrote: > Why is it that am experiencing varying speeds when am > online? I can take up to 6 hours opening my yahoo mail > box, then a site like extremetech.com with all its heavy > looking content opens real fast, among others. Then I > keep hearing about UTL customers failing to get yahoo or > infocom people not getting to google.com. What causes > this? I think its somewhat related to the ongoing talk on > the i-network group about slow connections.
These are 5 places one needs to check to diagnose such problems: a) the local network b) the transit ISP c) the transit ISP's peers/upstreams d) the content provider's ISP e) the content provider Naturally, it's not feasible to check all these points whenever customers face problems. The very nature of the Internet (a distributed network, with no central point of control) means that while it's a highly successful machine, a problem could occur anywhere, at any point. I'd suggest you troubleshoot your problem in the order listed above. There are simply too many factors that could lead up to the problem you describe. Cheers, Mark.
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