Bananas
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join:2004-08-18
Santa Barbara, CA
| Major slowdown in SoCal
Since about 7 pm yesterday it's been very sluggish. I can't even login to manage my Sprint account, called them this morning and they said they had an outage. Google works fine as well as a few sites but this morning I couldn't even bring up this site. Oh well, I hope it's fixed by tonight so I can watch the Daily Show tonight. |
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Jim_in_VA
join:2004-07-11
Cobbs Creek, VA | have them check for giant bird's nest on the tower ... it happens 
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TetherMonkey
@spcsdns.net | reply to Bananas
Same weird slowness issue in SoCal here too ....  |
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brianhayes
Premium
join:2009-02-23
Watsonville, CA
 ·Pacific Bell - SBC
| reply to Bananas
Central coast near Monterey is a mess. Since early Oct 20th. About 70% of my bookmarks won't load, the others pop at full speed. Can't sign on to Sprint, site doesn't show up. Other sites such as Google or Reuters news, load in a snap.
It's as if Sprint's DNS farm is stalling. My signal is 68dBm. I usually get 500kbps a mile from the tower with a Wilson Trucker and and Amp. But by testing direct download, sites are trying to load at 10-30kpbs, just like a modem in the 1980s!! |
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brianhayes
Premium
join:2009-02-23
Watsonville, CA
·Pacific Bell - SBC
| reply to Bananas
Sprint EVDO seems to have about ten farms serving DNS, called 'Home Agents'. Normally these are selected automatically during dialup, but locations can be forced.
Using the Speedtest graphic, I noticed I am most often linking to San Jose or Anaheim, but these have been giving real trouble in the last day or so.
I forced the sign-on to Kansas City and the intermittent slowdown seems fixed and speeds improved dramatically.
For example:
68.28.81.76 Kansas City, MO Area 2
68.28.81.77 Kansas City, MO Area 2
68.28.57.76 Anaheim, CA Area 1
68.28.57.77 Anaheim, CA Area 7
The sticky instructions are at EVDO Forum
»www.evdoforums.com/thread2001.html
Maybe this tweak can help things until Sprint reboots their servers. 
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