Public Workrooms Questionnaire Directory Internet performance Anyone on campus who surfs the Internet will have noticed how painfully slow it has been lately. Usage has increased beyond expectations this year and our connection to the Internet has become overloaded. While the bottleneck for New Zealand traffic has been fixed, another appears to have surfaced.
International traffic continues to be very slow.
This was found to be due to capacity problems with one of the telecommunications companies who provides an international feed from Waikato University. This was fixed by diverting traffic to another supplier. You may be wondering why it takes so long to find and fix these problems. In order to view a web page or download a file, data may have traversed many of these networks to get to your browser. A bottleneck can occur in any of these networks or the host you are connecting to may be overloaded.