What gateway are you on?

http://usertools.plus.net/@gateway

I've tried two gateways now. I was formerly on Telehouse North. I'm now on Telehouse East, but it has not improved matters. I still don't know if the Google problem is anything to do with the rest, but it seems likely, as I've never had any problems with the maps until now.

"Snap" ......

fwiw, I've tried Juniper 2, 6 and 8, they seem to be working fine here with map.google.co.uk here.

When I was experiencing problems earlier, I had trouble accessing other websites and could not stream the BBC News video from

http://news.bbc.co.uk/

The Google problem has cleared up now.

I think it probably was all part of the same thing, as I have been having similar problems to you, but can't be more specific than "some websites aren't working sometimes". There didn't seem to be any particular pattern. I couldn't get Google Maps to work at all, MSN kept losing the connection, and a site I had on auto-refresh kept losing the datastream.

Looks like the issues are back - I noticed it got better overnight and has become progressively worse during this morning

In reply to a post by cromozone:

Looks like the issues are back - I noticed it got better overnight and has become progressively worse during this morning

Hmmm. OK here, so far, on Telehouse North, Juniper 1.

I have been experiencing DNS-type problems intermittently for - I would say - a few weeks now. At first I put it down to some new enterprise software rolled out by my employers (it's a work laptop), but the more time goes on, the more I think it's not that.

It's not every day, or even every week, which surely it would be, if it was down to something that had altered at this end.

And I notice it almost exclusively from late afternoons onwards, never in the mornings.

I thought maybe exchange congestion, but the symptoms suggest connectivity issues, NOT speed. If I do a speedtest during one of the affected periods (if I am lucky enough to be able to connect to a speedtest), it will typically show I am getting average, or even better than average speeds.