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Community acting strange tonight (3/11/2019)?
Well, it's now 12:53AM EST, and it seems that things are back to normal. I noticed that, after I had originally posted this, it wasn't just the Community. Though my speeds were showing as fine at testmy.net, I was having all sorts of problems. Pictures weren't loading on some sites, and Facebook was absolutely awful. It was taking many minutes for a Facebook page to load. It was terrible.
It got to a point that I was going to restore my computer with a system image from November, but I tried everything again just before I did, and it was back to normal. I didn't think that restoring would do anything, but at that point I figured I'd give it a try, and if it didn't make any difference, I would have just restored it back to my current version.
So, hopefully everything is back to normal for good.
I wonder what could have happened.
How weird. I wasn't online last night at all, so I can't say if it was happening here. Did you run a traceroute? May have been something along the route that was temporarily down.
Wouldn't surprise me if it wasn't CenturyLink messing up.
Been battling with Cloudflare because their automated emails were batching up and not going out hours later than they were supposed to. They go through the same CenturyLink hub in LA as the SDO gateway that I'm on.
Cloudflare is also the CDN for AbuseIPDB which has mysteriously been going 'off-line' lately - for about a minute at a time. If that doesn't sound familiar: I've been seeing these gaps where downloads stop for about a minute before resuming, if they don't timeout and fail completely.
I still maintain that CenturyLink is still way broken. Everything points to them as the common denominator.
Weird... there is an ongoing degradation right now for some posts not appearing in community, but that's all I see. I can say I was trying to watch Harry Potter last night (please excuse my nerd) and it just completely stopped in its tracks around 9pm EST then was very poor quality afterwards. It is possible there is some kind of east coast hub thing going on. When these things happen I usually hop on downdetector.com to see if any CDNs or known providers are down - (akamai, AWS, level3, centurylink, etc). Let us know if you still encounter issues.
Amanda
Thanks for the suggestions, folks. If it happens again I'll try to do the things mentioned so that I can narrow down what might be causing it, or at least try to, anyway.
Thanks again. :)
