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#290014 14-Oct-2021 20:55
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Not sure if this is a coincidence but is anyone else experiencing slow browsing with some sites on Xtra/Spark this afternoon/tonight? Most notably Stuff - it loads the homepage fine, but clicking any story takes ages, and this is in two different browsers. Users streaming Youtube videos (over wifi) experienced buffering earlier, be it 4K, HD or SD. None of this was happening last night.


I've restarted the router and my desktop and wifi-connected devices (mobiles) but to no avail. Haven't touched the ONT. I haven't done thorough testing yet however the Speedtest app (in Windows 10) sits on connecting and goes no further, or if it does it says it can't connect to the internet.


I tried looking up a random Facebook profile on my mobile using the wifi and it sits there loading all the components slowly. Change to (Vodafone) mobile data and boom! it's right there, almost immediately.


Just checking if this is an isolated thing before I start tinkering with router settings or contacting Spark.


I'm based in Auckland.


Thanks in advance :)


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  #2795587 14-Oct-2021 21:05
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Having same issues with 2degrees




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  #2795588 14-Oct-2021 21:06
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Yes, I've just rebooted my modem for the same reason. Some sites load just fine - Facebook comes up instantly with all images, as doesn NZ Herald, but others won't load at all or are loading really slowly. I'm also having trouble with Stuff. 





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  #2795590 14-Oct-2021 21:10
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Bigpipe ufb - also having issues.



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  #2795593 14-Oct-2021 21:29
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Having issues too, youtube etc. Couldn't even get to Sparks site initially, can now. Nothing on their outage map though, seems only some sites affected.


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  #2795594 14-Oct-2021 21:32
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I take it then with all providers having issues there's something weird going on/changing in chorus land tonight.

 

Haven't seen anything official though, I'm seeing it on two different provider connections on the North shore.





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  #2795595 14-Oct-2021 21:35
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Same - 2 Degrees


 
 
 

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  #2795603 14-Oct-2021 21:46
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or upstream CDN maybe?





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  #2795604 14-Oct-2021 21:49
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^ I thought it might be this too. Relieved it's not just isolated to me, I thought it was something with my setup.


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  #2795608 14-Oct-2021 21:55
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Vodafone too, Steam main page taking a while to load (good minute or so to load content)

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  #2795664 15-Oct-2021 07:25
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Looks like it might all be back to normal this morning?


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  #2795778 15-Oct-2021 09:38
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No complaints here this morning so maybe sorted. Interesting issue as it was intermittant/slow access to certain sites and not others. SpartanVXL mentioned Steam being slow, but my Steam download wasn't affected.


 
 
 
 

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  #2795789 15-Oct-2021 09:49
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Agree all back to normal





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  #2795814 15-Oct-2021 10:42
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Yup working okay this morning.

It was the steam store page and specific game community pages (not the main one) that were slow. Downloads were okay. Likely a cdn upstream? Dunno.

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