BBC on Website Slow Downs

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday March 21, 2003 @08:00AM from the sure-gets-tricky dept.

HiveMaster writes "The BBC is carrying a report about the impact on websites as people try to get news regarding the war in Iraq. It talks of a report from Keynote Systems, which tests the reponsiveness of websites, which shows that the BBC news site has shown a fourfold increase in response times. However, Government sites in both the US and the UK are being hit, with the US Army site taking over 80 seconds to load at peak times." Also, here is a press release this. You can also read My journal where I've talked quite a bit about what Slashdot has done in preperation for traffic bursts.

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Satellite availability? by caseyc · 2003-03-21 08:04 · Score: 5, Informative

Another factor that may be contributing to this is a sudden drop in availability of communications satellites. The Department of Defense has been buying up bandwidth on commercial com satellites for their own use during the war.
1. Re:Satellite availability? by stef0x77 · 2003-03-21 08:45 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  Most of the net traffic, particularly across the atlantic travels on under-sea cables. Satellites are ususally used for remote areas or backup comnunications, due to latency and bandwidth issues.