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Kevy Baby
02-12-2008, 07:35 PM
We have been experiencing delays with emails all day (3-6 hours). We called our email service (Go Daddy) to inquire. They said that several ISPs are experiencing delays because of down trunk lines.

Anybody heard anything about this? Or is this just a lame excuse by Go Daddy?
BarTopDancer
02-12-2008, 08:02 PM
I'm not, nor is our company.

Have you sent a test from your email to a another ISP?
Not Afraid
02-12-2008, 08:10 PM
I've been having issues all day.
Prudence
02-12-2008, 08:55 PM
BT claims he sent me an email hours ago that I've not yet received.
Not Afraid
02-12-2008, 08:55 PM
Google was not available. The world is ending!
wendybeth
02-12-2008, 08:55 PM
I'm probably revealing my ignorance, but might this be related to the Blackberry outages? Speaking of, have they figured out what the cause is in that area?
€uroMeinke
02-12-2008, 09:03 PM
Those cable cuts are catching up it seem - conspiracy theory my eye
wendybeth
02-12-2008, 09:09 PM
Maybe the Anonymous movement to do in Scientology is involved.:evil:

(They did say they were going after them via technology.....)
BarTopDancer
02-12-2008, 09:10 PM
WB - BB outages were with the BB servers.

Maybe the email outages are due to the weather on the east coast?
blueerica
02-12-2008, 09:22 PM
I have no idea, but teh intrawebs seem really extra double-slow tonight for me... Well, mostly my gmails, but I've noticed a major slowdown.

Interesting.
Moonliner
02-12-2008, 09:47 PM
You can check the Internet Traffic Report (http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm)to see if there are any major outages in the offering.

It won't help your email issue, but you might also try switching to Open DNS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDNS). I did that awhile back and noticed a significant overall decrease in website load times.
CoasterMatt
02-12-2008, 09:50 PM
Check DSLReports.com - they're really good about updating internet wide issues, as well as ISP specific ones.
Gn2Dlnd
02-13-2008, 02:42 AM
From another thread, waaay back on the 6th -

Coincidentally (or not), I've been having slow interwebs for a few days. Today it didn't want to load e-mail.
Kevy Baby
02-13-2008, 08:41 AM
You can check the Internet Traffic Report (http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm)to see if there are any major outages in the offering.According to that site (which I have kinda given up on), Florida and Arizona currently are completely without service.
Jazzman
02-13-2008, 08:41 AM
Huh. My pirated WiFi has been working just fine. Maybe it's just affecting all you old schoolers who pay for access. :evil:
blueerica
02-13-2008, 09:59 AM
I dunno, I thought it was the weirdest thing... I could see my gmail flickering back and forth from service to nothing.

Then again, I was also having issues with my TV giving me background music but no VOICES on certain television programs in HD.

*cry*
Kevy Baby
02-13-2008, 02:20 PM
I was also having issues with my TV giving me background music but no VOICES on certain television programs in HD. I've been hearing voices in my head lately. Maybe that's where yours went.

However, my brain is nowhere near high definition, so I don't know...
Gn2Dlnd
02-14-2008, 12:21 AM
Then again, I was also having issues with my TV giving me background music but no VOICES on certain television programs in HD.

*cry*

Check your audio settings, maybe your surround system. Sounds like your center channel is what you're not hearing. If you don't have a center channel speaker, turn off 5.1 surround and go with reg'lar old stereo surround. :)
blueerica
02-14-2008, 09:10 AM
Check your audio settings, maybe your surround system. Sounds like your center channel is what you're not hearing. If you don't have a center channel speaker, turn off 5.1 surround and go with reg'lar old stereo surround. :)

I don't have a center, and it's already on stereo, though I will double-check. The sound was only going out periodically, twice during the hour-long episode, and worked perfectly fine the rest of the time, so I'm not sure that's the problem, but it is worth checking.
Kevy Baby
02-14-2008, 09:58 AM
I don't have a center, and it's already on stereo, though I will double-check. The sound was only going out periodically, twice during the hour-long episode, and worked perfectly fine the rest of the time, so I'm not sure that's the problem, but it is worth checking.I would double check the connections and settings. If you are wired to get sound on your television, I would check the TV audio when you get the problem. If the voices on available on the TV audio but not on your audio system, the problem is the latter.

Another question is: are you using a cable/satellite receiver for your HD? The receiver may be faulty. If the quick check above loses voice audio through the TV, then I would suspect a faulty receiver - it is not decoding the signal properly.
blueerica
02-14-2008, 11:42 AM
Um, I dunno... I never had any other problems with any other station or show. It seemed like a one-time thing. I don't have an audio system. Just cable box and HDTV. Didn't have any problems with other channels during the show.. just for Jericho.

It was weird, but I'm generally not worried about it. I should have been more specific that the TV seems to have super nice sound quality, and since I can sense cars zooming in one direction or another just by sound, I figured it had some stereo-like properties.

Oh, and I thought it was funny in tandem with my flickering gmail and intrawebs issues. Nothing more, nothing since.