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Is Your Internet Slow Today ?

SailorSam
SailorSam Posts: 22,754 Forumite
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There's been the biggest ever attack on the Internet today as spammers are caught up i fighting with Hosts.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21954636
Liverpool is one of the wonders of Britain,
What it may grow to in time, I know not what.

Daniel Defoe: 1725.

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  • lovinituk
    lovinituk Posts: 5,711 Forumite
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    Been discussing this elsewhere. According to other reports this actually happened 12 days ago...

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/internet-security/9957063/Web-slows-under-biggest-attack-ever.html
  • SailorSam
    SailorSam Posts: 22,754 Forumite
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    Someone at the Bbc must have read The Telegraph at lunchtime today, they've only just got it.
    Liverpool is one of the wonders of Britain,
    What it may grow to in time, I know not what.

    Daniel Defoe: 1725.
  • GlynD
    GlynD Posts: 10,883 Forumite
    Fast enough today for me but I have experienced slow speeds over the last couple of weeks.
  • Robisere
    Robisere Posts: 3,237 Forumite
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    GlynD wrote: »
    Fast enough today for me but I have experienced slow speeds over the last couple of weeks.

    Me too! Have complained to Plusnet that my speeds have dropped by an average of 2 Mbps. Not a lot if you have mega-speeds, but I was on 8+Mbps and have come down to 6Mbps, over 2 months.
    I think this job really needs
    a much bigger hammer.
  • JJ_Egan
    JJ_Egan Posts: 20,281 Forumite
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    My BE connection is as fast as normal DNS lookups fast as well .


    jje
  • debitcardmayhem
    debitcardmayhem Posts: 13,441 Forumite
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    I did think about complaining to TalkTalk, they said I could get up to 11Mbps , but I am getting 13.5-14.25 do you think I should complain? :cool:
    4.8kWp 12x400W Longhi 9.6 kWh battery Giv-hy 5.0 Inverter, WSW facing Essex . Aint no sunshine ☀️ Octopus gas fixed dec 24 @ 5.74 tracker again+ Octopus Intelligent Flux leccy

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  • -TangleFoot-
    -TangleFoot- Posts: 4,673 Forumite
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    According to this it's a storm in a Dutch teacup...
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