This Is Really, Really Annoying
Almost nothing I do on the ‘Net can be done in a reasonable fashion on dial-up speeds, and I almost never stream anything or watch video. Every site I check has so much graphic content that it just oozes and seeps across the screen when I try to load the pages. Just a like to YouTube brings the entire process to a screeching halt as you wait for the still frame to load. I don’t pay the extra bucks for DSL to sit here and wait.
This has been going on since 8AM and I haven’t even finished my normal blog run, much less grab the stuff I want for what I’m doing for a client. Why, whatever the problem is would affect my service on the Panhandle and the service in Hardee County in Southwest Florida is beyond me.
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I’ve been seeing the same problem throughout the day up here in Chicago, and I’m on a T1. It seems all the internet tubes have been clogged lately — my fear is that BushCo has put FEMA in charge which could explain a lot.
I haven’t noticed any undue sluggishness tonight, but I had trouble (not related to my hardware trouble) earlier in the week.
I doubt this is deliberate, but I do think we should open a discussion of what we will do if Dubya and company should ever decide to pour SuperGlue into the intertubes, or even start filtering them the way the Chinese do. I’d like to think Dubya’s clients, the big-biz big GOP contributors, would put a quick halt to such behavior… but one never knows.
Yep I noticed things was slow here too (i usually try resetting my modem – but that isn’t always the problem). But the content on some folks pages is 100 times worse than others. All those ads, side bars, and the annoying pop-up ones that block the content til ya *close* them. What are folks *thinking* – and like it’s really worth so much to bung up your page for that garbage! 😉
The Global Crossing problem is probably still rippling through the “tubes”.
The last time I had T1 access, Alice, I had 128 users on a PDP-11 and an IBM 370 sharing it, so it wasn’t a speed demon, but it beat the hell out of the leased partial we had before the T1 became available. The last two days of the month were always “interesting.”
Steve, it will be through neglect if they mess up the ‘Net. People who understand it need to stay on Congress’s case about network issues so they don’t cave in to the telecoms.
It isn’t bad when things work, Karen, but when they slow down every link can be a problem. Waiting for a response from any of the sources, like Haloscan or Sitemeter can really affect load times. That said, dial-up people are really be excluded from more and more sites by the volume that has to download.
You think you got problems? The entire BlackBerry network crashed last night (Tuesday 4/17), bringing our entire civilization to a screeching halt.
Qu’ils mangent des fraises.