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.