Google went dark for 2 minutes and world net traffic dropped by 40%.
Google went dark for 2 minutes and world net traffic dropped by 40%.
Wonder how much bandwidth was saved/not used during the whole whopping humongous 2 minutes.
What is "4:37pm Pacific Time to G.M.T."
http://www.worldtime...o-gmt-converter
That shows PDT or PST, but no PT - Pacific Time "is neither Fish nor Fowl"
My best guess is 23:37 GMT,
About 22:00 GMT my Browser was running with Gmail on one of its Tabs,
but it was in the background whilst I tested some software when my computer crashed and shut down.
I restarted and launched my browser and restored the previous session which brought back all the TABs that had been open - apart from Gmail.
I clicked my bookmark shortcut to launch Gmail and enter my account,
and each time Gmail refused to even recognise that I had an account - but It recognised my wife's account.
This would have been around 22:37 GMT ( give or take half an hour)
I feared that either my Windows installation or my browser profile was corrupted, and called it a night.
This morning I powered up and as I hoped but really doubted,
after an overnight shut down and start up all was well again,
and Gmail was working again.
Conclusion :-
Either Google went dark at 22:37 GMT,
or about 1 hour before Google went dark there were problems with Gmail,
and either there was a cascade of servers falling over and taking down their neighbours,
or
Google phoned Technical Support and they asked
"Have you tried switching off and switching on again"
interesting site:
http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/