Google Down ?

WEW, Google aint workin !!!

Howd at happen ?

that is an odd one... ii wonder what http server they use?

i have had no problems my-self?

Seems to be workin' fine for me

Yep its back now.

It was completely out for about 4 minutes.

I tried 5 isps and none could reack it and I couldn't ping it either.

Strange eh ?

Did you try it in time tampa ?

thats odd, that you couldn't ping it... if you got a socket error, then the server should've been up^ i'd imagine - if it was un-ping-able then you would have gottn' a different err0r...

ignore my pingy error message. I can't ping it now its back up either.

Mark_boyle2002 banging head repeatedly on filing cabinet while ironing hands

When it was down did you do a traceroute to see where it stopped? Perhaps network outage? ( http://www.internettrafficreport.com )

Will try it next time mittens but I dialed in on 5 different accounts to make sure it wasn't my end.

Cheers for that site. It has some good stuff on it.

sialdflkn difficult to type with burnt fingers.

Most large sites do not return pings, they consider security just like we do :D Try hotmail and some others some time like Amazon, Microsoft etc.

Not a damn thing and it's been that way since firewalls got beyond the laboratories.

Hi Mark,
Probably a totally stupid post, but I have had the same problems as you in the UK. I put it down to the telephone link, not google, but I may well be wrong. I find it often happens after heavy rain ('phones don't like water) or when there is excess traffic and you cannot connect at full speed (I use a 56.6)

Other stuff seems to misbehave as well, hence my pointing a finger at the telcos.


As I said......probably wrong as usual, but I have come across it.

i have used google about 20 times today and never had a problem with it