>With all the discussion about the UT, I'm not understanding a major issue: Why is access some days better than others, pretty much all day? I.e., today is a "good" UT day - very fast all day for me. This is not the "noon rush" sort of slowdown. And this is definitely independent of any hangups on my ends (home or work).
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>This is not only true here, but I use eBay and Yahoo a lot, and they're just as bad if not worse than UT as to this. It's like bandwidth shrinks for extended periods, and it is not due to hit quantity. Can someone explain? Does it mean routers are down, something like that?

Bruce,

My guess is that it's a combination of a LOT of variables. Cut cables, overloaded routers, etc. I was just chatting with our providor this morning and he said that their providor just went from OC3 to OC12 (if I have the terminology correct) which is 25MB to 100MB or so.

Personally I think the Internest is growing SO FAST that this will be the norm until the net achieces it's relative load level. Databases do the same thing. Gorw like crazy until they reach their optimum size, then fluctuate between a certain range record & size-wise.

Bottom line IMO: Growth pains

Best,

DD