Astraweb slow for anyone else?

[freakadude]

I had trouble yesterday evening and some today - I switched over to the EU SSL Servers and it seems to be at capacity again.

[JohnnySixStrin]

They're still obviously still having issues with their servers. I can download but the speed is still way slower than it should be; the fastest it averaged was 1100kB/s today (1800 normally), but it bounces up and down. Using the eu server seems to be faster, but it's speed is also going up and down and still not as fast as usual.

[thund3rcat]

Connecting issues, along with a lot of incomplete binaries.

[sandman_1]

No problems here. Everything is fine on both US and EU servers with me.

[Beck38]

It's been up/down/slow/fast for the last 24-36+ hours. For those who know anything about the fiber layout of 'silicon valley' (Santa Clara county, San Jose and surrounding southern Bay Area communities), back in the early 80's the county built it's own 'fiber loop' from Mountain View around the south bay to Fremont, hooking into the 'major' telcos (at the time, Pacific Bell, AT&T, Sprint, and others), but recently some of those 'majors' have finally gotten off their rears and 'built out' the infrastructure allowing most of the companies to transition off the old muni system.

I'm pretty sure that Astraweb was on the muni system years ago, when I was still living there (2001), but it's a good question as to who there are on now. My tracert reports that my traffic if fed through Cogentco, but it probably was a 'local' problem at the site itself, and not any of the feeds, as I do a tracert about every day, and the route changes about every day.

Looks like it's stable as a rock tonight (my time), hopefully it will remain so as I have a bunch of 'stuff' qued up to run overnight, and should be done tomorrow am (if nothing gets 'slow').

Update: seems to be running just fine, no major slow-downs all night long it appears.

[JohnnySixStrin]

I was going to comment yesterday that my speed was back up to normal. Something told me I should wait and see and sure as sh...... Now it's at the CRAWLING speed of about 370kB/s!!!?? It looks I might have to find a new provider at this rate.

[Beck38]

Kinda watched it like a hawk through yesterday, and there were a couple slow-downs. It tended to pop right back up fairly quickly, though, and I ran all night long (last 12 or so hours or so through the Santa Clara server) and no major problems.

They may have done, what appears to the users, a minor s/w change that resulted in problems, who knows. Lots of folks switched over to the Amsterdam plant and got better throughput, but it's the other side of the planet from me (I'm right next to the US server), so it's a bit much (route miles and hop count wise) from my perspective.