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Down for everyone, or just me..

One of those.

The site as per title of thread says just me.

Site is www.telegraph.co.uk

Running like an absolute dog, pages hang, bits don't load... since about 01:00 this morning

At the moment the site responds but won't load the home page - edit - now it does - visually it's like packet loss

But, everything else is fine from here. Just that site playing up.

Anyone else?
 
Thanks Kits.

Actually having checked, it *is* packet loss. Horrendous ping times. But only between here and that site even though the connection is abysmally slow today - it's only managing 2meg at times, not that it notices much for normal web browsing. Hopefully it'll be fixed later..

Petition signed, I wish you success.

Edit: inability to spell a name :(
 
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I have been having similar problems with the BBC for the past 48 hours; the pages sometimes taking 8-12 refreshes to show anything other than a blank screen.

Then the problem will clear and everything will be fine, until the next time.
 
Curious to know if anything has been going on, guess we'll never know. I've absolutely no idea how the backhaul and peering works for 3G relative to fixed-line or if there's anything common.

All back to normal (well, nearly, only 4.6Mbps down today it seems), latency normal (all pages load more or less instantly), that site and all others working fine.
 
Like Captain Cretin, I've been having minor problems with BBC pages in the last day or so, and with a few other sites. Other than the BBC and these few others (probably no more than half a dozen), the rest of the web is zipping along as usual. I'm on a normal perfectly good landline, and with ICUK, so I'd suspect that something in the system (Linx or some other common point, maybe?) is up the creek a bit rather than it being ISP related.
 
For the last 24 hours, the BBC has been fine and it is email that is up the creek, I cannot get the Gmail page to load and even mail from my isp's server is taking forever.

This is not being helped by a friend who has just started to stick a 7.7MB "sig" on all her emails!!!!!!
 
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Are you all using your ISPs DNS server or OpenDNS etc?
 
I've tried both - didn't make any difference.
The BBC seems basically OK now, but still subject to an occasional reluctance to respond - out of about two dozen links to news items that I clicked on when I last gave it a prod (about 2 a.m. I think) all came up no problem except one, which sat there twiddling its thumbs for a good twenty seconds before reluctantly deciding that letting me read it wouldn't really do any harm.

@ Captain Cretin - I am a little puzzled as to how you can describe such a moron as a "friend". Any halfwit who did that to me would instantly be marked "too thick to be worth communicating with" and blocked!
 
Iam using OpenDNS, and I make allowances for LOLs; which in this case stands for Little Old Ladies.

She has kindly removed the sig, and I have suggested her son could probably sort out something identical that would only use 20-50KB.

I dont think it was all her fault, I suspect the Facebook link was causing a lot of the problems, as the rest of the sig came to 20KB.
 
If OpenDNS doesn't help and other people aren't experiencing the same issue then it's probably a routing problem with your ISP or some sort of odd firewall or MTU setting related bug.
 
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I would have thought if China Mobile or China Unicom had a problem, ALL of the European sites would be having problems.

I do normally put Google glitches down to the GFWoC's intermittent blocking, but I will admit, this is the first time I have seen Gmail affected; and GoogleEarth works every time.

(The GFWoC only blocks the BBC's Chinese language output)
 
Well, whatever it was has disappeared - or, at least, for me it has. I've had a fairly busy day, bashing a good number of sites quite heavily with no problems apart from one "search" which went to sleep, but that was on a site that is less than reliable at the best of times, probably hosted on Uncle Sam's Bargain Basement two dollars a year very shared hosting set-up, the sort of garbage outfit that I wouldn't even consider for my little amateur sites, never mind a supposedly professional operation, so totally unconnected with the earlier more widespread problem.

Cap'n - re Little Old Ladies. Oh, OK then, as I'm feeling in a good mood, I'll let her off this time, even if she is a Farcebook user. ;)
 
Hi setup, sorry about the delay, a virus tried to infect my pc and managed to destroy a couple of important .dll files in the process, no biggie if I had my portable dvd drive and repair software, but I left them all in the UK!!!

2 days to source the software I needed and an hour to get the netbook to boot. :crap:, although I still have a number of programs to repair.

The LOL doesnt have a facebook account that I am aware of, she was hosting a link for a friends business; have you heard of an organic cider/perry maker called Hogans?? about 40% of the pears used to make his perry come from the LOL's garden (yes she has a HUGE garden, it takes 4 hours on a ride-on mower to do the lawn!!)
 
I hadn't come across them before - but their website was easy enough to find.

The reason I hadn't heard of them before is doubtless because they make no claims to be an "organic" cider/perry maker. They seem decent enough, they do at least use proper apple juice (and it's English), not that rubbish "concentrate" muck, so are likely to turn out a respectable product - but not organic, no organic certification indication in sight, and they're not trying to pretend they are something they are not, the word "organic" does not appear on their site at all as far as I can see, so I'm not sure where she got that idea from.
 
I've tried both - didn't make any difference.
The BBC seems basically OK now, but still subject to an occasional reluctance to respond - out of about two dozen links to news items that I clicked on when I last gave it a prod (about 2 a.m. I think) all came up no problem except one, which sat there twiddling its thumbs for a good twenty seconds before reluctantly deciding that letting me read it wouldn't really do any harm.

Progress here has been identical to your report with respect to (and only) the Telegraph site - day one barely anything worked, day two most things worked, day three everything worked. All fine now. Can't have anything to do with that BT outage since it started before that. Not DNS. If the tennis or the world cup had been playing, I'd have put it down to something to do with that. Very odd.
 
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Their claim to fame is using old, traditional Worcestershire varieties of apple and pear to make their products; finding suitable pear trees is particularly difficult apparently, the guy was going around asking people if they had any pear trees, then going round to see what variety they were. I turned out the LOL had a lot of these old trees, either in her small orchard, or growing around the edges of the field behind her house (she and her husband own an old farm house and a few fields).
This happened last year; they harvested 2 tonnes of pears from her garden, out of a total collection of 5 tonnes; I am not sure how much they harvested this year.
 
@ Captain_Cretin...
"I am not sure how much they harvested this year."
Well, if you'd done the decent thing and introduced me to the lady, I would have happily inspected her trees, and the answer then would be "Nothing" because I'd have eaten them all! :laugh:
You might be a little luckier out your way, I suppose, that part of the country being one of the traditional growing areas, but I hardly ever see decent English pears in the shops these days - partly, no doubt, because Ms "Oh Dear It's Got Spots On The Skin I Don't Like The Look Of That" Hermetically Sealed Brainless Modern Mother doesn't like what she sees compared with the tasteless but visually "perfect" fruit that she sees in the the plastic packs in the supermarket, so won't buy them. Add to that the fact that pears are a bit of a minority interest (I'm sure half the younger generation think they only exist to add a bit of colour variety to tins of fruit cocktail), and the smaller shops that might otherwise have something more edible than the supermarket garbage don't find it worth their while to stock them.

@DTMark...
Yes, as you say, it was going on long before the Stepney Green outage, so that wasn't the reason, and there doesn't seem to have been an obvious logical cause.
Oh well - one of life's little mysteries, probably with as little chance of being solved as the question "Where did my name-changing twice-bankrupt 3x great-grandfather disappear to, and what name did he dream up next, after the wife decided she'd had enough, dumped him in Leicester and went home to Essex in 1854?" :laugh:
 
Come out to China, they have some VERY nice tasting pears here, although you may find it difficult to recognise them, because they look like Golden Delicious apples!!!!!

I am having problems with a lot of .uk sites right now, the BBC took 6 refreshes to load, although once loaded, everything worked, I did notice it was only the non https version though; several other sites wont load at all.

ISPR loaded first time, but then the server is located in Germany
 
China? That's somewhere east of Shoreditch, isn't it? It's not on my Oystercard map!
Call me a pessimist if you like, but I have a sneaking suspicion that the cost of the fare (plus the cost of a passport, of course, because I don't have one) might make the effective price per pound of the pears just a wee bit prohibitive...

...and I believe there are slight internet problems out there too! :p
 
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