AOL outages and service status in Southend-on-Sea, England

Problems in the last 24 hours in Southend-on-Sea, England

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Southend-on-Sea, England and surrounding areas. An outage is declared when the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line.

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AOL Issues Reports Near Southend-on-Sea, England

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in Southend-on-Sea and nearby locations:

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  Martine Louise (@martinegilbert7) reported 3 minutes ago from Minster-on-Sea, England

  I wanted salad and Coles law. Un fortunately service was Too s low. So in stead. I listened to Sheryl Crow also Cheryl Cole. Oslo a little simply red. AND blues boys. While writing my c.v. On my AOL A/C #rtitbot

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  Phil Lee (@PhilLeePhotos) reported 8 minutes ago from Gillingham, England

  @Cook_Estates @AOLSupportHelp At least I'm not the only one, was just on point of thumping laptop in frustration. 🙄 So will remain calm, now I know it's not problem at my end.

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  🌸TILLI🌸 @ FFXIV (ARR) (@kthxsayonara) reported 11 minutes ago from Saint Mary Hoo, England

  AOL have deleted more than half of the saved emails in my inbox and now I’ve lost the email containing the serial codes for Eleanor Forte AI, Synth V Studio Pro and Natsuki Karin AI. I’ve managed to send an email to Anicute but AHS want a support number (was in a deleted email…)

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  fran (@frannyannew) reported 22 minutes ago from Thundersley, England

  @aolmail been three days since we have had access to our emails. Not getting much help from #Aol at the moment. Please help us get back on line. #badcustomerservice

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  Elvin K. Box MCIOB MBA(Open) (@ElvinBox) reported 25 minutes ago from Basildon, England

  @aolmail assume the email telling me my request to terminate my AOL account; which of course I did not, will be carried out in 3 working days, is obviously a scam email? Many thanks in advance xx

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  Phil Lee (@PhilLeePhotos) reported 29 minutes ago from Gillingham, England

  @AOLSupportHelp Hi AOL, we are having terrible speed /connection problems and we have switched router on and off. How do we get this rectified,. My wife's trying to work from home and it's causing no end of problems. Cheers Phil

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  Phil Lee (@PhilLeePhotos) reported 53 minutes ago from Gillingham, England

  @AOLSupportHelp Hi AOL, we seem to be having terrible speed /connection problems. How do I get this rectified, as its causing massive problems our working from home. I've tried switching it on and off but still having problems Cheers Phil

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  Maxine Sweetman-Ive (@sweetmax22) reported 56 minutes ago from Southend-on-Sea, England

  @BekoUK I bought a Beko VCS5125AR Upright Vacuum Cleaner in Red from AOL 27/2/21 and in the past week it has cut out after using it for 10mins and did not restart for 20mins. Not happy. I would like it swapped for a hoover that works competently for the use it was bought for!

AOL Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  The Lock (@The_Warlock_86) reported 59 seconds ago

  News flash, they never did. Even at the height of the Attitude Era wrestling was still looked down upon even with star athletes Kevin Greene, Dennis Rodman & Karl Malone headlining ppvs. Hardcore wrestling fans used to ***** in AOL chatrooms and Delphi Forums about celeb involvement. If you want further proof, no one outside of hardcore nerds watches AEW

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  Alex Goldman (@AGoldmund) reported 3 minutes ago

  I’m reading Kara Swisher’s book about AOL which came out in 1999, and the tone of the book is like “this is the biggest company in the world! Nothing will take them down!”

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  Mark Blaydes (@mblaydes1) reported 5 minutes ago

  @brockpierson I would login to AOL than go make dinner. By the time I came back the home page may have uploaded

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  𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚙𝚞𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎 (@manipulate) reported 6 minutes ago

  a lot of you have never been punted off of aol at 3am and it shows.

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  Rich (@RichardWyl39256) reported 9 minutes ago

  @SeaeyesTri I remember setting up my dial up connection on AOL. It was so slow back then

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  Jeff Bohren (@JeffBohren) reported 10 minutes ago

  @brockpierson If you had AOL or CompuServe, you had to connect with a modem. At some point PCs shipped with integrated modems, but yes, I rocked one of those bad boys as well.

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  LKA (@katiwa_4) reported 10 minutes ago

  Someone decided the Adams Arcade lights are not working… with Ngong road matatus flying like they have no breaks … Aol yawa.

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  Stefan Smith (@TheStefanSmith) reported 10 minutes ago

  My Aunt Jane has had the same AOL email address since 1997 and is using ChatGPT to help her redesign her kitchen.

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  Shmuel Londner 🇮🇱 (@ShmuelLon) reported 11 minutes ago

  Something about $BSP: they bought AOL at a 5x income before tax, which is optically cheap right? The small issue is that they bought it from Apollo and imho there's zero chance Apollo got a bad deal

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  JovanHuttonPulitzer™ אני לא סובל טיפשים! (@JovanHPulitzer) reported 13 minutes ago

  @RWMaloneMD #HistoryMatters - seeing your uninformed Virgina rant on #DateCenters thought I might give you something to reflect upon: AOL started in Northern Virginia. It began in 1985 in Vienna as Quantum Computer Services, became America Online, and in 1996 moved its headquarters to Dulles/Ashburn in Loudoun County. Around the same time, UUNet/WorldCom was nearby. Those companies pulled in fiber and built early server facilities. Even more important was MAE-East (Metropolitan Area Exchange–East), one of the first big internet exchange points. It started in Fairfax County / Tysons around 1992 and later moved to Loudoun to sit closer to AOL and the other networks. At one point a huge share of U.S. internet traffic passed through it. Once networks had to meet there to exchange traffic, everyone else followed. Equinix built early Ashburn facilities for that reason. After the dot-com bust, AOL faded, but it left behind unused “dark fiber,” empty buildings, and a dense interconnection hub. Local officials later marketed that leftover infrastructure to data-center developers. AOL’s old campus itself has been torn down or converted into more data centers. Why it kept growing after AOL The cluster stuck because of a pile-on of advantages: Fiber density and low latency. Once the exchanges and carriers were there, it became the cheapest, fastest place to interconnect. A commonly cited figure is that a large share of global internet traffic still touches Loudoun. Proximity to Washington. Federal agencies, defense contractors, and intelligence work created early demand for secure computing nearby. Power and land. Dominion Energy power was relatively cheap and available. Eastern Loudoun still had large industrial parcels near Dulles when the boom started. Tax policy. Virginia added a sales-and-use tax exemption on data-center equipment (servers, generators, cooling, etc.) around 2008–2010. That became one of the state’s biggest economic-development incentives and made Virginia hard to beat on cost. Network effects. Each new data center made the next one more valuable, because customers want to be next to other networks, clouds, and content providers. So: AOL and MAE-East planted the flag in the 1990s. Cheap power, leftover fiber, DC proximity, and later tax breaks turned a local internet hub into the world’s largest data-center market. Ashburn/Loudoun is still the core; growth has since spilled into Prince William and other Virginia counties as land and power in the original alley got scarce.