http://news.com.au/video/id-kwaW1tbzoggaDPqZ7wyOeP68NoK436EF/Is-the-Internet-Outgrowing-Itself
 
no sign of trouble on fixed wireless,yet.

doesn't look like the video is available but this is the basics:
Essentially, the problem seems to lie in the plumbing of the internet and the number 512. As the internet expands, more and more data is being pinged through its pipes. The routers through which the data passed were designed years ago with a strict number of ports to table the data — 512 rows of 1000 ports to be precise.
This number of 512,000 routes was picked at random by programmers as an educated guess to futureproof the routing table for web traffic flow. Now we have reached a point where this old hardware has too little memory and slow processors, which cannot cope.
With too many people on the road, the routers have hit their limits and it’s causing the internet to jam — and it’s only going to get worse, experts warn.
So,if you had trouble,especially yesterday,then it may not be the software.
my uncle is in Europe on business and says communication literally came to a standstill.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Obviously the internet needs more RAM. 

It's all that looping.  

MM's been saying that all along!

further reading shows there are a number of solutions including Advanced Format and Emulation but imagine the worldwide upgrades-reckon they will be more severe than forum glitches.
but then if we engaged in less "chatting" and governments weren`t so intent on saving my searches we might have coped a bit longer??

In the past 3-4 years I have seen the preferred unit in backbone internet transmission go from 10g  (formerly OC192) to 100g  (no former OC-anything !).  400g is next.
 
One of the solutions is to move some of the routing intelligence out to the fiber optic network.  My company is big into this.  Our fiber optic backbone systems are now becoming Layer 2 switches.
 
This current internet problem is good for me !  (Y2K was pretty good too, remember some righteous overtime)
 
JR