Is just for me, or is the internetz totally broken today? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: senso
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 08, 2013, 10:24:17 am
content: Good evening, just a quick question, can your Dropbox thingy sync with the cloud, can you access anything google, or youtube, there are lots and lots of other sites that are not working/loading, this is really strange, internet connection per se is good(downloading some torrents, and can at least open EEVBlog).Firefox and Internet Explorer behave the sameIs this some sort of major DNS crash?

author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 08, 2013, 10:41:07 am
content: http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

author: Stonent
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 08, 2013, 11:06:03 am
content: Internet health report:http://www.internetpulse.net/Sometimes there's breaks or bad latencies between backbone providers that cause all sorts of annoying stuff.

author: senso
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 08, 2013, 11:23:39 am
content: That page also doesn't load, might be my ISP or a local problem.

author: Jon86
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 08, 2013, 11:28:08 am
content: 'Downloading some torrents' - That's obviously slowing your connection down, very common.

author: deth502
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 08, 2013, 11:49:09 am
content: idk, but i havent been able to click on the "beginners" tab here on the forum for the past week. the "502 bad gateway" message assures me that its a known error and is being address, with no need for me to report it, but judging by clicking on the "new posts" button, its obvious that others dont have this problem.

author: senso
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 08, 2013, 11:50:13 am
content: I know they can kill my connection, but they are limited, either upload, and download, so no, torrents are not killing my bandwidth.In fact, the first thing that I had to teach my new house colleagues was that you always limit upload velocity, or there is no internets for no one, it was kinda hard to explain to them.And even in ubuntu, with no torrents active it acts the same, this is one weird morning for sure.

author: madshaman
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 08, 2013, 12:17:08 pm
content: It's most likely your ISP's "transparent" web proxy/cache. That will cause the kind of behaviour you see.

author: Galenbo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 11, 2013, 10:24:01 pm
content: If the weather's bad, my ISP limits the Youtube bandwidth for its customers.Don't compare my region with a free zone, we only have 2 ISP choices, both quasi-controlled by the government.

author: Kryoclasm
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: November 11, 2013, 11:20:35 pm
content: I bet Al Gore accidentally turned off. No worries, he invented it, he can fix it.

author: Stonent
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 12, 2013, 03:58:49 am
content: Quote from: Kryoclasm on November 11, 2013, 11:20:35 pmAnyone remember Ricochet Wireless back from 1999/2000? "High-Speed" was basically the speed of either Single B or Dual B channel ISDN.

author: madshaman
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 12, 2013, 04:55:08 am
content: Quote from: Stonent on November 12, 2013, 03:58:49 amI remember making a 14400 baud slip connection to my university and running the windows 3.11 build of ncsa mosaic.Oh, and terminal based "gopher", and mudding, and...All the magic is gone isn't it? ;-)

author: Stonent
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 12, 2013, 05:10:03 am
content: Quote from: madshaman on November 12, 2013, 04:55:08 amTrying to get trumpet winsock to work... those were the days.

author: lnx64
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: November 12, 2013, 05:17:01 am
content: I still have my first computer, and the ethernet card is still useful to this day, and the external 2400 bauds modem, which is useless to me.the modem used to connect me to compuserve, before we got a 486 and went to AOHell..The first computers specs were then 512KB RAM, 8MHz CPU, no HD, and monochrome.Btw, I still use that old computer, and it goes on IRC chat servers now, or acts as my simple FTP server. It's specs now, 640KB RAM, 8MHz, 2GB SSD (soldered together a kit ISA card for IDE connectors on the 8-bit ISA bus), soundblaster, and Xircom PE3 parallel port ethernet.I could use Lynx on it for websites, but, they look like crap, lol

author: madshaman
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 12, 2013, 05:22:59 am
content: The first computer I programmed: Commodore Vic20The first computer I owned: TRS80 CoCo2 (6809E); don't judge me, I was poor and it cost me every cent I could save. I had the "editasm" cartridge which had a primitive editor and assembler. My workflow: write code, assemble, write to tape drive, take cartridge out, load program, try to figure out what was wrong, repeat..Sadly I never had a modem and didn't do the bbs thing until uni.

author: madshaman
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 12, 2013, 05:27:18 am
content: Quote from: lnx64 on November 12, 2013, 05:17:01 amSweet!! :-)

author: Kryoclasm
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: November 12, 2013, 06:53:30 am
content: Quote from: lnx64 on November 12, 2013, 05:17:01 amThat looks like an IBM PS1, am I correct?

author: Stonent
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 12, 2013, 10:27:46 am
content: Quote from: Kryoclasm on November 12, 2013, 06:53:30 amI'm having flashbacks of Sears in the early 90s.

author: elgonzo
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 12, 2013, 10:49:46 am
content: Quote from: Kryoclasm on November 12, 2013, 06:53:30 amNope, judging by the case it is a PS/2 Model 25.If the floppy drive is still original, then it packs a whopping 720KB on a diskette