For future reference, a decent detector of the main internet backbone slowness and outages, is http://www.internetpulse.net/
If you're having problems, and want to try and confirm it's not just YOU, that link will show you some stats and fancy colors regarding latency and network availability on the major ISP networks.
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If you're having problems, and want to try and confirm it's not just YOU, that link will show you some stats and fancy colors regarding latency and network availability on the major ISP networks.