London Internet Exchange Problems

[iUnknown]

Hello,
LINX is where the majority of UK ISPs and content providers connect to each other and exchange traffic.
There was a significant problem earlier today at approximately 14:55 which affected LINX, and can be seen at their public traffic statistics by the graph dropping from the usual levels:
https://www.linx.net/pubtools/trafficstats.html

LINX is the London Internet Exchange and this problem effected many ISPs and some datacentres - although many up-to-date data-centres have technology that off loads the data to other exchanges when a problem like this occurs. Many websites have appeared to be down, when it's your ISP that has the fault. Speeds were reduced at this time on all UK ISPs.

Just letting you guys know if you've found your ISP to be strangely slow recently.

[iCosmo]

thats why my internet was really slow, thanks ;)

[iUnknown]

thats why my internet was really slow, thanks ;)

In your case though, you're with AOL who were transferring to the carphone network's tiny network earlier today as well I believe because I think carphone warehouse bought AOL.

[iCosmo]

:( I'll probably switch ISP by the end of this month.

[Leetzgirl]

My internet been cutting out, only been conntecting locally over the past week :|

[iUnknown]

There has now been a second significant problem at LINX which will be affecting internet traffic throughout the UK, this happened at approximately 19:50. Once again you will be able to see the affects of this by checking their public traffic statistics.

[Tomm]

Dunno if it is related or not but I have been experiencing alot of connections timing out to alot of websites - took me about 5 attempts to login to google mail cause it kept timing out all the time.

[iUnknown]

Yeah, that's likely to be connected.

Edit: ooer 666th post. unlucky?

[Breakfloor]

In your case though, you're with AOL who were transferring to the carphone network's tiny network earlier today as well I believe because I think carphone warehouse bought AOL.

other way round. but thanks for the information.

[iUnknown]

other way round. but thanks for the information.

Ah, I thought carphone warehouse were a bit too small to buy such a big company like AOL. Thanks.

[lScottl2]

All websites work for me now, but this explains it.

[brandon]

Ah, I thought carphone warehouse were a bit too small to buy such a big company like AOL. Thanks.
Explain this then :S
http://www.google.com/search?q=carphone+warehouse+buys+aol&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1

[iUnknown]

Oh, it was what I thought at first then.

[iCosmo]

Does that mean the broadband speeds are going to improve?

[iUnknown]

I think they'll probably get worse for AOL users.

[Flisker]

Yea past few days its been a nightmare! So, I'm now moving to O2 Broadband within 1-2 weeks ******

2,500 posts :)

[brandon]

Oh, it was what I thought at first then.
I actually thought the same thing though, about them being too small!