On 04/13/2013 08:43 PM, zxq9 wrote:
> On 04/14/2013 11:07 AM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
>> Does anyone know of a site that gives status on
>> this sort of thing, so I do not have to wait to
>> hear it on the news?
>
> http://www.internetweathermap.com/
> Visualization of aggregated latency times in various regions. I haven't
> used this one much so I don't know how accurate its stats are VS the way
> things feel at the user level.
>
> http://www.internettrafficreport.com/main.htm
> Anything disruptive enough to impact a region or large ISP will usually
> show up here, but it doesn't carry much detail.
>
> The only reliable way to test things is check point-to-point, of course,
> but most of the time users saying the "internet" is slow means "latency
> between me and one of Facebook, Google, YouTube, Vimeo, or [favorite
> game server] is slow" so point-to-point checks don't always make sense
> and a general traffic report might not provide any heads up.
>

Thank you!