transit across the Internet was exceptionally slow

from Computerworld.com:

Debugging the Interwebs

"At 8:30pm PDT I noticed that transit across the Internet was exceptionally slow. A look at Keynote reported problems between Cogent, Internap, XO and others with packet loss between 3.5% and 6%. By 9 p.m. the problem had gotten worse with Savvis and Qwest reporting similar loss percentages. At 2 a.m. Friday (I happened to wake up and thought I'd check) Internap and Qwest are reporting 6.5% packet loss.