Internet Broke Yesterday

jintortle · August 2014

Will the Internet Difficulties hinder MOD 4?
I hope not. If tomorrow is the same as yesterday for me I will be sleeping.

For me the Foundry Editor is down at the moment.

I can not play through what I have made always won't load or client not responding!

http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/the-internet-broke-yesterday-and-it-was-all-because-of-the-number-512/story-fnjwnhzf-1227023949109

I think the news article up above explains why (if you can not read it because of country restrictions I would copy "Internet Broke Yesterday" and past into your search browser!

I still can not get into some basic web sites - this might hinder MOD 4 as well.

Yesterday was almost unplayable. (Was almost smashing my keyboard in frustration of not being able to do basic internet stuff)

Today was OK.

jintortle · August 2014

Some more links

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/13/512k_invited_us_out_to_play/

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/2299150

http://www.loopinsight.com/2014/08/13/the-thing-that-broke-the-net-yesterday/

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/is-the-internet-full-major-sites-brought-down-by-technical-problems-20140813-103tyd.html

zshikara · August 2014

Sounds to me like the internet problem is on your end, not PWE's. I was able to connect to everything (including all the websites I frequent) perfectly fine yesterday and today.

jintortle · August 2014

Ah! It is not PWE's fault if you read anyways.

It is old technology and the situation was world wide - it even made EBay inaccessible.

i could play Neverwinter except at only 10% efficient speed. LAG anyone?

jintortle · August 2014

"Auction site eBay, for instance, collapsed for much of the day. The company has not explained the exact nature of the problem, but admitted in a statement that “technical experts identified this was due to upstream Internet Service Provider (ISP) issues”. Password manager LastPass was also affected, leaving customers locked out of their accounts.
The issue, according to many experts, was with something called the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). You may never have heard of it, but it is absolutely vital to the operation of the internet and is causing large problems.
BGP is what tier-one ISPs, your last-mile ISP and various large networks use to route data from their own machines to others, and vice versa. When you visit a website, that data bounces all over the world, through machines belonging to all manner of companies and organisations. To make this work, machines called routers (large commercial versions of what you have at home) keep a table of known, trusted routes through the tangled web.
This routing table has been constantly growing in size as the internet expands and becomes more complex – more information needs to be stored in order to allow the router to bounce data to the correct destination along a logical route. Until late 2001, the size of the table was growing exponentially, which was clearly unsustainable. A big effort to implement more efficient methods was made which temporarily slowed expansion. But it didn't last long.

Now we are at the point where some older routers are struggling to cope: their memory is too small and their processors not powerful enough. A full copy of the routing table now contains 512 rows of 1,000 ports, a total of 512,000 routes. Older hardware was never designed with larger tables than that in mind. Many have a strict 512,000 route limit, put in place by programmers many years ago who were forced to arbitrarily choose a number; you don't make something so capable that it can operate for a hundred years as the hardware cost would be enormous, but you must also ensure a practical lifespan. The result if often little more than an educated guess.
As these machines struggle, the effect is that ISPs experience outages, hosting companies have problems and websites either go down or slow down." <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/11030725/How-an-arbitrary-number-broke-the-internet-yesterday.htm>

For those to lazy to click :0

charononus · August 2014

Some people will run slower, some people will lag, and some of these will blame PWE against all evidence. Business as usual.

nimbiss344 · August 2014

Hoping mad I bought a steam card today so I could be able to buy some zen in-game so I could buy a stone beast for my sister as a gift for her, I go and try to use the steam wallet and it kept crashing saying in red letters it could not currently access the system at the time I tried several times with this and then exited, came back a few hours later and went to load the points from my steam wallet account and this time it went through on buying the zen then when I went to buy the beast for my sister a new window popped up saying to recent purchasing on your account of zen the beast when bought will be bound to your account and cannot be transferred and it bound the stone beast to me now I cant give it to my sister.. WTH what happened with my account? if there any way the admins can unbound the beast from my player? I spent good money today because I wanted to get the beast as a gift.

charononus · August 2014

nimbiss344 wrote: »

Hoping mad I bought a steam card today so I could be able to buy some zen in-game so I could buy a stone beast for my sister as a gift for her, I go and try to use the steam wallet and it kept crashing saying in red letters it could not currently access the system at the time I tried several times with this and then exited, came back a few hours later and went to load the points from my steam wallet account and this time it went through on buying the zen then when I went to buy the beast for my sister a new window popped up saying to recent purchasing on your account of zen the beast when bought will be bound to your account and cannot be transferred and it bound the stone beast to me now I cant give it to my sister.. WTH what happened with my account? if there any way the admins can unbound the beast from my player? I spent good money today because I wanted to get the beast as a gift.

Well this has nothing to do we this thread. But I'll answer it anyways.

http://nw-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?719681-Neverwinter-Security-Update-07-31-14

Internet Broke Yesterday

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