The 'net is spazzing out tonight for me

The internet has been acting really wonky for me all night. Not everywhere, but probably a good half of everywhere I've gone online tonight has been spazzy to some extent or another--loading time-outs, weird-looking page loads, extra-super-duper slooooooow loads, etc. It seems to be mostly on mainstream national news, some store sites, Facebook. Even YouTube has been glitchy with the page loads & streaming. The places that seem to be operating perfectly normal are my email and the forums I frequent (ATS included)

Has anyone else experienced this? It's the same thing for me if I use a different browser. I've combed over my computer, and have no suspicious programs hiding out. I'm wondering if it's a bunch of DDOS nuts going overboard. Or maybe it's just my internet provider's regional server going haywire?

I have as well. Pacific Coast Southern Region.

reply to post by Nyiah


Mine has been just fine all night. Virus scan maybe?
2nd

as a matter of fact,yes!!!
my email was down for a while(yahoo),and youtube was loading really slow!!!
facebook had no new posts for 3 hours or so,(thats unusual)
just checked spaceweather.com and there are no flares coming at us.
i don't know what the problem is!

holy manatees thought it was just me lol

youtube was going nuts for me earlier, took forever to load my email when usually it's really quick, yet ATS is fine

Did a virus scan, tried three different browsers hmm.

reply to post by billy197300

Nothing turned up on my virus scan. I did the fine-comb MS SE scan, and a full AVG scan (no, I don't generally run them both at the same time, I usually keep MS SE turned off, only run it to make sure if I'm skeptical of results)

Originally posted by reficul
as a matter of fact,yes!!!
my email was down for a while(yahoo),and youtube was loading really slow!!!
facebook had no new posts for 3 hours or so,(thats unusual)
just checked spaceweather.com and there are no flares coming at us.
i don't know what the problem is!

Yahoo email for me, too. And it made a liar out of me shortly after posting. I can't get it to load for nothing. Youtube right now is timing out on the load, and news sites are still loading in a "bare bones" kind of look.

Miri08, I've tried Firefox, Safari, and Chrome. All of them are having the same issues.

Do we perhaps all have the same service provider? I wonder if it could be an issue related to the provider company? I have Verizon DSL, do any of you use it, too?

reply to post by Nyiah


No, I have Comcast or I guess it's called Xfinity now. It could just be my provider, they are kind of....to put it nicely - bad... but it's just odd that you all are having some of the same issues too.

I'm back on Firefox right now (which is what I usually use) but I tried Chrome and even IE (which I hate) and all were the same for YouTube and my email. A few other pages were a little slow loading but nothing major.

ETA: I use avast and ran a scan before actual start up and the comp was fine, then AVG later and still nothing. I've also done a defrag recently and my cache is clean so idk.

I remembered the Akamai monitor site. It's interesting to note that it does in fact seem to be a little slower here in FL (latency view) and the PNW. The traffic view is above normal, especially in the California region. I'm not sure how the attacks view factors in to right now for those of us having problems. It's for the past 24 hours, so I do suppose it may include recent ones that may have an effect on us? If anyone has a better understanding of what this data represents, could you explain it a little?

Akamai Real Time Web Monitor