VM Messing about?

Been browsing www.pown.it for about 1 hour looking for a vid and i cant access the site anymore, mate of mine can on bt and that downforeveryoneorjustme site says its just me.

I cant ping it either..

so what the hell is going on

Virgin Media 20Mb
Results from http://www.speed.io
(Copied on 2009-02-23 22:46:55)
Download: 19080 Kbit/s
Upload : 750 kbit/s
Connects : 2305 conn/min
Ping: 21 ms

Pinging www.pown.it [87.106.144.163] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 87.106.144.163: bytes=32 time=31ms TTL=53
Reply from 87.106.144.163: bytes=32 time=30ms TTL=53
Reply from 87.106.144.163: bytes=32 time=29ms TTL=53
Reply from 87.106.144.163: bytes=32 time=31ms TTL=53

Page loads.

VM Cambridge.

I've been finding this intermittantly for the last couple of weeks.

It's like connections via certain routes halts for a minute or 2. I can spot it as my POP3 email timeouts out yet my phone can pick it up fine.

Virgin Media 20Mb/s
19,707kb/s - 790kb/s @ 24/10/2008

No idea how to get around the site but it works for me.

lol thanks

its working again today... got really annoyed with that just randomly stop working..

[censored] routing!

Virgin Media 20Mb
Results from http://www.speed.io
(Copied on 2009-02-23 22:46:55)
Download: 19080 Kbit/s
Upload : 750 kbit/s
Connects : 2305 conn/min
Ping: 21 ms

Mine is playing up again today

I too have noticed several sites that at times I can't reach. Not happened yet today, though has happened several times in the last few weeks.

Not that I've experienced any specific issues, but I had some free time on my hands this evening and decided to setup SmokePing on our Linux broadband router (see signature). I have added www.thinkbroadband.com and the site you mention (www.pown.it) into the configuration. The graphs effectively stat response time together with standard deviation (smoke) so lets see how this pans out.

If anyone wants any other sites added, drop me a private message. This is running on a 50Mb connection in London and the Linux box employs traffic shaping so that ping request packets originating only from the box itself will be sent out ahead of all other out going traffic (which means if someone is torrenting, it should favour smokeping's packets over theirs and so hopefully always guarantee the fastest possible delivery of the ICMP echo-request packet outbound, although, I can't control the inbound so much - but it would take quite a bit to saturate a 50Mb link).

Now on Virgin Media (50Mb/Cable)
Was with Be* Un Limited and before that ZeN
Is Linux routing your internet connection?
Need to make BIND geo-aware?
MySmokePing

i get a similar problem with facebook on and off.

PC SPEC
AMD Athlon 64 6000+ AM2 Dual Core, ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe 570 NForce Mainboard, 2GB DDR 2 XMS2 800Mhz Cosair Ram, 1440 GB Hard Disk Space, 512mb NVidia 8500GT PCI-E 16x Graphics, 700watt PSU.

Ex AOL Dialup 56k Customer....
Ex Freedom2Surf 512k Customer and Ex Eclipse Internet 2mb Customer.

Virgin Media 20mb Cable

Virgin Media R EVIL!!!