net weirdness

[miriam_e]

I've noticed that accessing web pages has become significantly more unreliable lately -- just in the last month or so. Pages refuse to fully load, or even load at all, the net seems quite a bit slower, and there was my problem this morning of an email not downloading then disappearing entirely on the second attempt.

Has anybody else noticed a recent increase in internet flakiness?
I'm wondering if Australia's net censoring might be responsible. I don't think it has been widely implemented yet, but perhaps discreet "trials" are continuing.

Or might it be the internet service provider I'm signed up with?