Super Slow Google

Chrisworld

Chrisworld

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2010

Gameamp Guides [AMP]

W/

I don't know why, or how to fix it, but in the past week Google has been REALLY slow and unresponsive for me. No matter if I access it from my Mac, PC, another PC in the house or my iPod Touch, the response times to pull up search results and image search results is painfully slow. I also have google's public DNS addresses setup on my computers+ipod... Now, if I ping google.com i get an average of 12ms ping which makes no sense. Perhaps my ISP is getting into a little feud with google or companies with google and decided to stretch their e-peen a bit by being Big Brother and throttling their customer's access to google? And when you connect to "google" aren't you actually connecting to the closest google-owned cached content server within a radius of your ISP? So perhaps it's this one near me, or maybe not. Maybe I have to wait it out, but ether way it's really irritating. Google is google, I refuse to use bling..er "bing".

Anyone else experiencing this by any chance?

Tarun

Tarun

Technician's Corner Moderator

Join Date: Jan 2006

The TARDIS

http://www.lunarsoft.net/ http://forums.lunarsoft.net/

If you're using a router, setting the DNS on your PC/iPod won't help.

Test it, instead. Run a ping and tracert to google.com and see what it says. A tracert can tell you if there is a problematic hop along the way.

HigherMinion

HigherMinion

Forge Runner

Join Date: May 2008

East Anglia, UK

Order of [Thay]

N/

gmail is superslow for me too. Might just be my third-world internet, though. Telefonica are SHIT.

Rites

Rites

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2010

Deep in the belly of Texas

R/

i think google servers have just been overloaded or something. as above, they have been slow for me as well, and thats from my android phone, home desktop, laptop (wherever i may be), etc