Did anyone else have a hard time connecting to the internet after the attack?

[hrmjustin]

I could not get any website for 2 hours here in NYC.

[GeorgeGist]

1. None whatsoever here in ...

flyover country.

[Ptah]

2. DU was very slow for me about 12:30 - 1:30 MST

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Not a bit.

But I'm in Minnesota.

[Knightraven]

4. Why yes.

It was so normal for some sites, yet so slow for others my connection would finally give up.

[In_The_Wind]

11. That will happen to DU when something big hits the news.

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[Knightraven]

27. That was what I was thinking. So mmany trying to get on at the same time.

And thank you for the welcome!

[Control-Z]

5. DU got pretty bad

until they disabled some features.

[In_The_Wind]

6. I had trouble with DU and photobucket.

[LiberalEsto]

7. yes nt

[rocktivity]

8. DU was slow as the news broke after 4PM

but I figured it was due to the extra traffic.


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[davidn3600]

9. Could be just a flood of data slowed things down in a few areas perhaps

Cell service was disrupted in Boston shortly after the bombs went off because everyone tried to get on their cell phone at the same time.

It could also be an unrelated outage.

[BumRushDaShow]

10. DU issues this afternoon. n/t

[HockeyMom]

12. Only DU

not the Net, but I am in Florida.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

13. It was hard to get on some sites.

But I just chalk that up high traffic.

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[bluedigger]

14. DU is at High Traffic Level 1

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10132252

Boston.com was very slow - I was on it at as the event happened. Not an internet thing so much as server overload on some sites, I think.

[redwitch]

15. I can't get the fedex site to work.

The site says they are temporarily having issues because of what happened in Boston today.

[backscatter712]

16. I had problems with DU being unresponsive, but other sites were OK. n/t

[Cleita]

18. Me too about that time. n/t

[Nite Owl]

17. I didn't make the connection

with the attack but some DU pages were 'frozen', couldn't get on some other sites too.
They did say cell phone service was being shut down so maybe it had something to do with the signals.

[Auntie Bush]

19. DU was VERY SLOW an hour or so after the explosion.

I finally went somewhere else that was responding. Later DU was better.

[Texasgal]

20. No. My internet is/was working fine.

My phone is too.

[KharmaTrain]

21. Millions Of Refreshes...

...your connectivity depends on the type of "pipe" you're connected to and how many other people are connected to it. In a city; especially an apartment complex or office building you may be sharing an internet "pipeline" with thousands of others. In a story such as today's bombing where there are few details, people will now flock to the internet to find out any new details.

I encountered some problems getting on DU this afternoon and thought that maybe the site would have to move to Defcon 1 to handle all the people checking in and posting...

[moobu2]

22. No.

[Marrah_G]

23. It was slow here in the Boston area

But pretty sure that was just because everyone jumped online at once looking for news.

[allan01]

24. reDid anyone else have a hard time connecting to the internet after the attack?

i did . notcied that a number of services including yahoo mail were and are sluggish and or to the point of being what i call cranky. wont and or thinking about loading including du. tried to just log in and 'safari cant find page ". hem condolences to the victoms families of this disaster .

[hrmjustin]

25. Thank you all for your responses.

[frogmarch]

26. I couldn't get on DU for a while but

Facebook was okay and so were news sites I often visit.