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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 >