Well there is the oil well blow-out in Carlsbad, NM...and the power-outage and Microsoft MSN problems...they could all be causing the slow down in your area...
Power Outage Leaves 20,000 In Dark
Lights Out For Much Of Midtown Area
POSTED: 7:16 pm MST March 12, 2004
UPDATED: 7:27 pm MST March 12, 2004
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A power outage in Albuquerque left at least 20,000 customers without electricity.
Action 7 News was first to report the power outage at about 10:30 a.m. Friday.
Crews had electricity restored to most of the affected customers about an hour later.
PNM traced the source of the problem to a substation near Interstate 25 and Montgomery
http://www.thenewmexicochannel.com/news/2919826/detail.html Outage Hits Hotmail, MSN Messenger
'Internal issue' hampers logons for more than six hours Friday, Microsoft confirms.
Joris Evers, IDG News Service
Friday, March 12, 2004
Internal technical problems at Microsoft closed down access for many MSN Messenger and Hotmail users, as well as some MSN Internet Access customers, for about eight hours Friday.
Microsoft started receiving reports or problems with its instant messaging, Web based e-mail and dial-up Internet services at about 8:30 a.m. Pacific Time Friday, a company spokesperson says. The issue was identified at around 3 p.m. and solved an hour and a half later, she adds.
"The outage was pretty significant in terms of the number of customers it affected, but by now the services should be up and running for everybody," the Microsoft spokesperson confirmed late on Friday afternoon.
Details Withheld
Microsoft is not releasing details of the cause of the outage......
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,115196,00.aspThanks much. Interesting. I suspect you are right!
Didn't know about Alb.