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Internet weirdness?

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NutmegCT

NutmegCT

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For the last 3 or 4 days, I've had timeouts and very slow page loads on certain websites. Example:

https://weather.com/weather/tenday/l/06242 (takes over two minutes to load. Once loaded, reload works immediately)

Creating a new ebay ad takes over a minute to load each page.

Logging in to PayPal is fine, but getting the Account page to load takes over a minute. Same for using PayPal to buy on Ebay - click Pay With Paypal and the page freezes with a spinning "loading" icon for over a minute.

News sites like CNN, BBC, NPR load immediately.

GMail loads immediately.

BCF loads immediately.

Does anyone else have similar internet page loading problems?

Thanks.
Tom M.
 
Tom, the weather link loaded in 3 seconds. Think your server might be having issues? PJ
 
Here it seems to depend on time of day: local site's radar map will load quickly early in the morning and mid-day, slows for a while at 0800 and 1600. The load on the servers is likely to blame.

Other sites seem unaffected. Still getting used to cable instead of fiber, too.
 
Have you contacted Al Gore?
I was told that he invented the Internet.
 
Definitely weird. Happens regardless of browser I use. And ... is also happening to neighbor (who uses a different browser, a different router, and a different ISP.

Just tried that weather.com url again. Still nothing on the page after 40 seconds.

They're out tagedus!
 
Tom, if you really want to find out (while probably wasting a day) then look at "Developer Mode" in Chrome or hit F12 in Firefox & IE. I suspect some net service is slowing it down - maybe the maps as Doc suggests or some ads or related. Weather sites tend to use a lot of Javascript which might contribute. It's probably some combination of all that.
 
Wife uses FaceBook. 01JUN videos (not youtube) quit. Warning that they are having trouble playing the video.
Three days later, my two boxes quit playing FaceBook videos.

Updated everything, tried Opera, Chrome won't load at all, did a search on the algore, a whole bunch of folks having same issue.
I think it's an html5 upgrade from flash, and it isn't working.

Then, today, everything is slow as molasses everywhere.

Probably the Russians.
 
Thanks John. I'll see if I can find time for that, in between thoughts about ... something interesting ... on the way ...

T.
 
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