I don't know if this was related, but earlier today my personal internet dropped to 1mbps down for at least 30 minutes. Also had 40% packet loss using the cloudflare speed test on a wired connection. East coast, USA.
Is there a wider internet outage today?
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#32I guess it was a bad day to try out my new internet provider...
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#33Now I'm wondering if this is how I got "Server Error" while trying to initiate a POTS call. First time I've ever gotten that. HN also feels sluggish today.
As in, something spoke the words "Server Error" to you when you tried to dial out?
No, actually, the Android phone app put those on the screen.
(And yeah, not the more familiar/classic POTS voice message "We're sorry, the number you dialed…")
(Quite … uselessly, too. An error in text form when the phone is against my ear is not helpful.)
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#34Most of the websites I use have been fine, outside of the odd hiccups while browsing HN.
HN is working without issue for me if I log out of my account. I was worried that my account was suspended for some unknown reason until I saw this post.
Logged-out page views hit the cache. Logged-in ones don’t.
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#35I don't know if this was related, but earlier today my personal internet dropped to 1mbps down for at least 30 minutes. Also had 40% packet loss using the cloudflare speed test on a wired connection. East coast, USA.
I had the same thing happen. I assumed it was my suboptimal wifi setup acting up again and almost got back to researching mesh systems.
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#36Here in Europe traffic to cloud services from US based companies has been sluggish or completely disfunctional for days.
For example: Microsoft's Xbox app works but is superslow, and this weekend I couldn't even sign in in the EA app anymore for some reason.
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#38I’ve had problems in the UK with Netflix and PlayStation network.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
> "is there another explanation?" It's aliens. They literally announced they have been reverse engineering space ships from aliens from outer space. I mean I don't think it's true but it's what they announced.
After I read your comment, I googled. No one official announced anything. Instead an "insider" claims this. Among the claims, is that aliens are working with governements, and provided key tech, such as fiber optics, and silicon chips. Yeah. OK. I can literay, over a century, trace all the key scientific discoveries, how they happened, for transistors, ICs, etc. There was no help. And shining light through glass isn'…
The parent is a troll and posted this thread "Is Hacker News slow for you guys too? I think it's the Apple announcements" just 20 minutes earlier.
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#40according to that website it's something called 'china unicorn backbone' that went down