The Verizon Wireless Web site “slowed noticeably just as Verizon executives said at a press conference in New York that they would begin offering the iPhone next month. Hordes of people apparently tried to access the site to get details,” Verne G. Kopytoff reports for The New York Times.
“The site, which usually downloads in around 3.5 seconds, took nearly twice as long to appear, according to Keynote Systems, a mobile and Internet monitoring firm. The slowdown lasted up to 30 minutes, starting at around 12:05 pm,” Kopytoff reports. “‘There wasn’t any significant outage; it just slowed down,’ said Shawn White, senior director of external operations for Keynote.”
Kopytoff wonders, “Who knows whether Verizon’s Web site slowdown is a precursor of things to come?”
Full article here.
Hmmm… wonder what their network will do when actual iPhones clog it up….
I don’t know what’s so hard about this…
Pay for extra server capacity and bandwidth…
Is Verizon running on hamster wheel power?
It’s your &$&@!% website! You’re getting the iPhone.
Make it work you clowns…
Hope this isn’t an indication of there network capacity….
See Verizon, not so easy is it?! Bwahahahaha!!
See Verizon, not so easy is it?! Bwahahahaha!!
See Verizon, not so easy is it?! Bwahahahaha!!
See Verizon, not so easy is it?! Bwahahahaha!!
This has no affect on me (non-US res) but I can only imagine the reaction from AT&T if Verizon’s network does suffer.. similarly, their reaction would be equally as entertaining if it turns out that Verizon can handle it and AT&T was using the iPhone as a scapegoat.
That explains it. Verizon is running its web server on FiOS with a 6Gb bandwidth cap.
I don’t think there’s much correlation between the Verizon site and how well it the network can handle iPhone traffic, but I am going to wait and see what happens before jumping from AT&T. No point in leaving for something that’s only marginally better, especially when I don’t really use the phone that much.
Funny. No MDN take. What’s the matter slow network got your tongue?
It’s good to be the king!
Preorders might bring Verizon’s site to its knees.
Wow, Verizon, you’re really ready for the iPhone. Not!!
I just visited VZ website with no problems. Sounds more like ATT astroturfers. No, I do not work for VZ. I’m a almost happy T-Mobile customer; totally happen it T-M had the iPhone.
They may have boosted their network to handle the data use from iPhones but they may have the same problems AT&T have experienced when trying to activate a million devices in a few hours.
What’s the big deal here?
At the peak went from 3.5 to 7 sec for half an hour???
Somebody tries to make montain from a mole.
Still faster than MDN website on any regular day.
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Just wait until 2/3 when people go for pre-orders, and on 2/10 when they actually try to activate them.
If I were to go Verizon, I would be sacrificing one significant feature that is critical for me: GSM SIM card. With AT&T (or T-Mobile), I get a phone with a SIM slot. When I travel outside of US borders (which I do often), I can go roaming (“I missed my connecting flight in London; I’ll be on the Swiss 4:30 flight to Zurich”), or I can stick a local SIM when I’m somewhere where people need to reach me (and I them), so we don’t have to pay exorbitant intercontinental long distance charges (plus my own roaming). There are very few Verizon phones that have an extra GSM chip and SIM card (in addition to the usual CDMA radio), and those phones are bland and bad.
If I were to switch to CDMA, I may as well go with Virgin Mobile; they are by far the cheapest carrier around.
Verizon web site for land line and DSL takes 30 seconds to load on any regular day. One of the suckiest sites on the www.
The comparison between AT&T’s network with the iPhone and Verizon’s network with the iPhone is not a fair one.
For AT&T, anyone who wanted an iPhone was on their network.
Verizon gets the holdouts.
Also, the iPhone was an unprecedented device. AT&T had nothing to gauge why it would do to their network.
Verizon gets to learn from AT&T’s mistakes.
So even if Verizon’s network is unaffected by the iPhone, that doesn’t mean that the same would have been true had they gotten the iPhone first.
Why = what
And so it begins…
Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it. – Winston Churchill
Wow the people on here are incredibly predictable.The website slowing down has nothing to do with the network which if you have read about Verizon has worked hard on to keep it up and bug free.So please think before you speak
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I reported that their site was down- not loading pages at all- after the VZ announcement. I would get an error page stating that the page could not be loaded due to a server error.