Anyone else having trouble accessing microsoft websites at the moment?  Timing out for me on Spark UFB and has been very slow/broken all day.

example tracert:

C:\Users\admin>tracert mail.live.com

Tracing route to dispatch.kahuna.glbdns2.microsoft.com [65.55.143.19]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     2 ms     3 ms     2 ms  192.168.1.254
  2     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  3     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  4     6 ms     6 ms     3 ms  ae8-10.akbr6.global-gateway.net.nz [122.56.116.5]
  5     5 ms     4 ms     2 ms  ae5-2.akbr7.global-gateway.net.nz [210.55.202.213]
  6    29 ms    31 ms    33 ms  xe7-0-2.sgbr3.global-gateway.net.nz [202.50.232.10]
  7    35 ms    31 ms    30 ms  ae7-10.sebr4.global-gateway.net.nz [122.56.127.214]
  8    28 ms    31 ms    31 ms  198.200.130.241
  9    28 ms    30 ms    32 ms  ae1-0.syd03-96cbe-1b.ntwk.msn.net [204.152.140.113]
 10   120 ms   119 ms   122 ms  ae6-0.hnl01-96cbe-1a.ntwk.msn.net [191.234.82.28]
 11   168 ms   171 ms   173 ms  ae6-0.lax-96cbe-1b.ntwk.msn.net [191.234.81.43]

 12   179 ms   178 ms   179 ms  ae10-0.by2-96c-1a.ntwk.msn.net [191.234.80.138]

 13     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 14     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 15     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 16     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 17   179 ms   175 ms   184 ms  origin.by172w.bay172.mail.live.com [65.55.143.19]

Trace complete.


Rang Spark helpdesk and they can replicate, and have classed it as a broken website issue.