Called AT&T Tier 2 support to address the same issue yesterday; the
problem seemed to originate at the AT&T router that aggregates traffic
from COs across the midwest. AT&T repeatedly wouldn't acknowledge that
the issue was further upstream (despite tracert evidence) and suggested
that I replace my modem (hah!)
John Simpkins
International Relations '10
JMC/MSU
On 5/4/2010 3:04 PM, Tom Rockwell wrote:
> Saw that as well yesterday. At the time, I had a remote desktop open
> from a node at MSU and it didn't have any problems with googling. I
> had the same conclusion that AT+T must have something broke, but
> didn't investigate at all.
>
> -Tom
>
> On 5/4/10 2:49 PM, Patrick Bills wrote:
>> MSUNAG,
>>
>> I wanted to get your opinion on a problem I'd experienced with Google
>> via AT&T DSL. I found that, yesterday, sites that used Google code
>> or features were very slow. I'd seen this before sometimes at home.
>> I thought it was just me at first, but then found these reports of
>> the same behavior
>>
>> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r24186278-Google-Routing-issue-again
>> http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/thread?hl=en&tid=11e4fec4dac2eaab
>>
>>
>> I noticed it on a website I'm making using the Google maps
>> API/javascript, which pulls script from Google (as most of you
>> know). At home on AT&T DSL, the site was incredible slow, hanging on
>> the map code. When I removed the Google javascript and map, it loaded
>> just fine.
>>
>> I began to notice many other sites that loaded google JS were also
>> slow. For a while even searches timed out, but mostly it's those
>> sites using google analytics, adwords, maps, etc.
>>
>> I checked my own site from couple other places - it was fine.
>> Campus, a Mason ISP, California. That pointed to, for me, a problem
>> with AT&T. I've had issues with AT&T before (once it was their DHCP
>> server) but they always blame the user. So I never bother calling them.
>>
>> The problem is gone now, but potentially any of our own sites that
>> rely on google could be problematic for AT&T users. For this
>> particular project, I'm planning on fetching a static map and caching
>> that server-side until the dynamic map is ready.
>>
>> I wanted to add my experience to the sporadic reports of local
>> broadband service on this list, and see if anyone else has this
>> problem and knows of potential work-arounds.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Patrick Bills
>> Michigan State University
>> Department of Zoology
>> http://www.zoology.msu.edu
>> http://www.hyenas.zoology.msu.edu
>> 517 353 8649
>
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