Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Are you slow today?

Has anyone else been having really slow internet connection for the last couple of days? I know lots of sites connected with weather and travel have been crashing because of overload and I wonder if it's affecting the net generally. Or my connection at least.

Or is it just me?

6 comments:

Lindsay said...

Mine in North Wilts is running at a normal speed.

Unknown said...

There have been times over the past couple of weeks that my connection has been extremely slow. I'm beginning to suspect that the time of day has something to do with it: 3:00 AM is normal fast; 3:00 PM is about as slow as it gets.

Gattina said...

Mine (in Belgium) is running normally too, although we had 3 snowflakes and usually the whole country breaks down then.

Furtheron said...

Possibly there are more people on your exchange or sub-exchange working from home given the weather.

Normally multiple people share an access point via the exchange and the more people on the exchange using it the slower it goes. That's why the blurb always states - up to xMb/sec - you'll only ever get the full if you are the only person on your bit in use at that time

Liz Hinds said...

That's a possibility too, furtheron. It's a pain because sites with photos - or your video - are taking ages to load.

CherryPie said...

Yes mine has been particularly bad for the last couple of day although normal speed seems to have resumed now.