Nobody knows why, but the entire North American internet slowed down significantly for several hours today. The packet losses began around 5:30 am (eastern) and continued until just afternoon, with loss rates at around 32 percent. Akamai (a data caching service) reported significant outages as well in Europe and China. Tumblr was simply down. Outages also hit Dropbox and Google App Engine. More. Hacker News discussion thread. Mostly people didn't notice, but if packet losses get more serious it would become very visible in a hurry. Something to think about.
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