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Dreamhost posting:

Reduced Download Speeds
Posted (December 15th, 2010 at 11:23 am PST) by Sandon

We have noticed some performance issues with one of our transit providers that provide us connectivity to the internet. Speeds are significantly lower than usual but latency appears to have stayed the same. We are contacting the transit provider to troubleshoot the issue and will post updates.

The reduced performance is not bad enough where it should effect regular browsing of web-sites but might be noticeable on large file downloads. Upload speeds to our network appear to be unaffected.

UPDATE 6pm PST: The ticket we opened with the provider (Comcast) is being looked into, and we’re waiting to hear back from them. We’ll update this post again as soon as we get news.

UPDATE 12:24 AM PST: It looks like the problems was caused by some dirt/dust. After the fiber was cleaned on both ends and the connection brought back up everything is back to normal. We are back to pushing traffic over comcast and not seeing any bad performance like we were earlier. This issue should now be resolved.

The bane of the internet. Dust.