24 July 2007
Too good to be true
A few minutes later and the Internet is slow again on some of the sites I want to use (listed previously). This is not good, and when the Internet is not functioning well like this, it is really annoying. Maybe I should just go to bed, it is 3:15 after all.
Update on Internet Problems
40 minutes later and now it all seems back to normal. Wonder what caused the problem. Maybe just some maintenance work by the ISP.
Internet Problems
I was able to use the Internet a while ago perfectly well, but now, all of a sudden, things are going slow on some websites, although others, including this blogger site, are functionig normally.
At first I suspected I had lost my broadband connection, but a quick check of my router's status revealed that the connection was still active. I was having problems accessing anything on Flickr.com, despite being able to load several pages from there one minute, the next minute nothing was working on that site. Also ebay.co.uk is now slow and Google Picasa claims it has an internal server error.
Maybe someone pulled a plug out somewhere at my ISP (Freedom2Surf), or maybe a terrorist attack on the Internet has brought certain sites down. We have had lots of flooding in the UK in the past weeks, maybe that has something to do with, such as a main relay station on the Internet being flooded with water and thus unable to operate, or a power station is not working that powers an important Internet company. The BBC News site is functioning but no news on there of any Internet problems. I turned on the TV and Sky News mostly has news about the flooding, nothing about an Internet problem. I also check the System Status page of Freedom2Surf and it does not list any problems.
The only other thing I can think of is the problem is being deliberately caused by my ISP. I requested my MAC number last week and signed up with a different ISP called NewNet. They had good reviews, on sites such as www.thinkbroadband.com and DSL Zone UK, and as the owners of F2S, Pipex, are selling us out to Tiscali, I decided it was time to choose a new ISP for my broadband of my own choice, not one imposed on my by Pipex. Tiscali have been consistently rated as one of the WORST ISPs in the UK, and there is no way I want to be with them. So maybe F2S are deliberately reducing my access to my favourite websites as a punishment for leaving them. I have also had random times of no connection at all to the Internet through broadband with F2S, not recently, but in the past it has occured too often. Resorting to dialup instead of using broadband is extremely painful and expensive.
By Friday I shall be with NewNet and surfing the Net again without problems, in theory.
At first I suspected I had lost my broadband connection, but a quick check of my router's status revealed that the connection was still active. I was having problems accessing anything on Flickr.com, despite being able to load several pages from there one minute, the next minute nothing was working on that site. Also ebay.co.uk is now slow and Google Picasa claims it has an internal server error.
Maybe someone pulled a plug out somewhere at my ISP (Freedom2Surf), or maybe a terrorist attack on the Internet has brought certain sites down. We have had lots of flooding in the UK in the past weeks, maybe that has something to do with, such as a main relay station on the Internet being flooded with water and thus unable to operate, or a power station is not working that powers an important Internet company. The BBC News site is functioning but no news on there of any Internet problems. I turned on the TV and Sky News mostly has news about the flooding, nothing about an Internet problem. I also check the System Status page of Freedom2Surf and it does not list any problems.
The only other thing I can think of is the problem is being deliberately caused by my ISP. I requested my MAC number last week and signed up with a different ISP called NewNet. They had good reviews, on sites such as www.thinkbroadband.com and DSL Zone UK, and as the owners of F2S, Pipex, are selling us out to Tiscali, I decided it was time to choose a new ISP for my broadband of my own choice, not one imposed on my by Pipex. Tiscali have been consistently rated as one of the WORST ISPs in the UK, and there is no way I want to be with them. So maybe F2S are deliberately reducing my access to my favourite websites as a punishment for leaving them. I have also had random times of no connection at all to the Internet through broadband with F2S, not recently, but in the past it has occured too often. Resorting to dialup instead of using broadband is extremely painful and expensive.
By Friday I shall be with NewNet and surfing the Net again without problems, in theory.
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