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So given the graphs of basically everything spiking on the downdetector home page, are we saying it's basically a majority of internet hiccuping?

• MisterSandman 5y ago
  Actually, isn't downdetector.ca a user-reported thing? So I imagine a ton of people were having issues with YouTube and thought it was their ISP (I know I did, I first checked speedtest-cli and the downdetector for Rogers)
  • ergot_vacation 5y ago
    This is a good point, and the disadvantage of crowd-sourcing it. There's no actual network analysis going on on DownDetector, so there's definitely room for some confusion if people blame the wrong thing. That said, the info here: http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm definitely seems to suggest something beyond just youtube.
    • MisterSandman 5y ago
      It is a disadvantage, but it's also the best down detector there is. I think there are a couple of others that just ping websites to see if they're up, and very few websites actually go down down nowadays. Downdetector.com is meant to be an instantaneous sanity check of whether you should go unplug your router for the 3rd time today or not, and it's pretty great at that, even if it exaggerates a bit.