Reality check

[Michaelaw]

Here in Vancouver Canada I'm experiencing periodic slowdowns on Google, slow loading waiting fifteen seconds or so for Google to load and very slow loading for other sites. People in my area I know are reporting the same. I run an extremely well maintained system and am very familiar with computers as I began computing when the Timex Sinclair came out I've recently upgraded my service to a 5mbps level but I'm still slow. Online speed test shows I'm getting what I'm paying for with totally consistent results. I'm just curious to know if this is a local problem or are you guys experiencing difficulty also before I begin to rattle the cage of my Internet provider.

Cheers

Michael

[Greg_Nuspel]

Google is still very fast for me. I thought life just slows down a little on the west coast

[kat]

Wish I could help you out but my internet provider isn't that well. My internet goes out daily, flow coming decreases making it hard to do anything on the internet.

Hope it isn't anything to major! Good luck!

[Lovin]

Works fine here, in North Van.

[F8&Bthere]

I am experiencing the same just outside of Calgary on Shaw iExtreme. Problem is surfing speed is so hard to troubleshoot, right? Shaw proudly announced recently a free internet speed upgrade and my system for surfing- not just google- seems slower than ever! I can't say I'm a 'puter whiz, but I do some basic maintenance like temp files and such, mostly using ccleaner, and it still seems slow either with Firefox or IE. Using MSN messenger for long distance video chat? Fuggedabudit! Yet like Michaelaw says my speed test show I'm just fine.

[Iguanasan]

I'm not having any issues here at all, Google is zipping along smoothly. If you've been using computers since the Timex Sinclair then maybe you are geeky enough to already know this. Google has a number of different data centres all over the place and though mine may be fine yours may not be doing so well.