On 09/20/2011 01:42 PM, Mike Copeland wrote: > Did anyone else see some pretty severe "sludge" throughput on the > Internet yesterday? > > I'm in the midwest, USA, Oklahoma to be exact, and my connection dropped > to about 56Kbps modem speed at around 12:30pm yesterday. I have three > clients in different cities who also had problems in the 12:30pm to > 3:00pm timeframe (central standard time)... > > Oklahoma City Cox Cable normally 3MB up/down went to 1.5MB down, 500Kb up > Tulsa Easytel (fiber optic) normally 45MB down/6MB up went to 5MB > down/1MB up > Bartlesville AT&T DSL normally 6MB down/800Kb up went to 55Kbps down/ > 10Kbps up > > Everything returned to "normal" throughput around 4:30 to 5:00pm > yesterday, each provider at different times. > > It would suggest something temporarily wrong with a regional backbone, no? > > Kind of gave my clients the jitters (and me) as they now rely on > real-time throughput for POS applications. > > Anyone else see a slowdown on 9/19/11? > > Thanks for any feedback. > > Mike Copeland > Genesis Group > Totally unrelated but our Internet was down all day yesterday for the first time in years! A transformer blew up and took out the phone lines with it.
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