Internet reliability went down lately

Sheep221

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For some time already, probably since the end of 2012 I'm experiencing huge decrease in reliability of how internet works, extremely long delays, connection dropouts, have to refresh websites countless times till they load up, till they load complete, and so on. Sometimes I need to refresh google 3 times to make it load.
YouTube and so on, are same, very low responsiveness, videos and sites take long time to display. The problem is, it's nothing within my computer or connection speed. I have 50Mbps broadband and I've met with this problem on numerous computers in the area where I live including other states on the continent. I have a phone, laptop and 3 desktop computers which all do the same. I met with the same problems on computers at work, friends etc. I've been traveling a lot lately and I experienced same problems as far as in the UK.

The next thing are the web browsers, which any of the mayor ones have some flaws I don't understand and their overall quality went down like never before.

1. IE10-worst IE version to date ever made, the IE9 or older were nowhere near this crashfest. It however performs well when viewing flash videos.
2. Firefox - been on it since its debut till about start of 2012, they screwed it up so bad that I can't use it anymore, sluggish more than ever and freezes instantly when youtube, or basically the flash plugin is launched and if not, than the videos are lagging so bad that their frame rate is probably 2-3.
3. Chrome - if I don't count the fact that interface is missing some 90% of basic features of web browser which also cannot be there added by any other means. This browser actually takes the time, after typing any website address, to sync with various servers for google ads, stats and services, which can take up to 15 seconds before the website even starts to load.
4. Opera, this is the best performer so far, but it has huge trouble with flash as well and loads videos very slowly and alot of sites contain code that opera does not read very well.
If I want my web experience to not completely suck. I must run at least 2 separate browsers so if the thing doesn't work in one, it maybe will in the another.
And again, it happens same way regardless of hardware, location etc

I don't understand this at all, but it seems that only web/http is affected while downloading large files and video conferences work well, skype does crash sometimes however.
Is anyone else experiencing same problems? I don't know why is that, but it's getting annoying that my 9600 bps modem and IE5 back in the day performed much more reliable than todays fiber optical networks and web browsers that are featured in TV ads. Is something wrong with the DNSes? Or is it IPv6 or what is making the web so unstable lately.

Please share anything to the subject, thanks
 

noobsrevenge

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Sounds like a personal problem. Don't try blaming IPv6, thats just silly.

Could be your DNS, but when you say you tried different computers in different areas, those would have different DNS right?
 

VirtualLarry

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Could be your ISP implements a transparent HTTP proxy, in order to filter/censor content. That seems consistent with your description, how there is a delay to HTTP, but doesn't seem to affect other services.

Try an encrypted VPN hosted outside your country (laws permitting).
 

Ketchup

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Curious, have you done a virus scan lately?

Web browsers come down to personal preference nowadays. I have used all the ones you mentioned and haven't had a problem with any of them.

Do you have a different servicer available to you?
 

Sheep221

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Yes, I have it done frequently and I have secure system.
To me it looks like there are some flaws in some areas and I'm probably living or accidentally been moving within the affected ones.
I assume it has to be something with DNS system. As there are not really many DNS servers that cover entire web, there are 13 root name servers and 359 DNS servers for the entire internet. So I still could be client of the same DNS regardless I was on opposite side of continent.

The VPN advice is good, but it may not work, because of this flaw and decreased connection speed, but I will test it in couple more days I guess.
 

alkemyst

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Could be hardware issues in your area or in the areas you hop through.

I was affected by a bad DSLAM card and AT&T kept putting off fixing it.