A notice to keep an eye on this over the course of the day. Looks like someone turned the Internet Rheostat down. North American response time over 360ms and Packet loss at 32%. These numbers have been 50% higher than the daily norm since approx 06:50Z. Looks similar to the event on the 22nd. Unable to track down the event on the 11th that seemed to permanently raise the packet loss norm two % points.
http://www.internettrafficreport.com/