My Gmail is fast again

Or in other words, yet another example of:

"How to get meaningful support from Google"

- be an internet personality in a community with enough clout to make noise

- write blog post

- wait

- profit?? :)

Seriously, though, glad it was all worked out (and, more to the point, we now have a teeny tiny indication as to where this issue stems from - for other users with problems)

Are they helping out anyone or just people that complain loudly? My gmail has been killing me lately.

If you want support for a Google product, write a letter to the 'Bits' blog of the NYTimes.

I once worked with some reasonably large shared Web hosting companies and they frequently "oversold" on bandwidth, capacity, and the like - quite normal practice in the field.. and if people complained about slowness (perhaps their server was unlucky to have a handful of heavy users on it), they could be moved to quieter servers.

Seems like a similar thing is happening with GMail. The difference, though, is that most GMail users aren't paying a bean ;-)

I think they swapped my account onto the old servers Gabe was on, because whilst mine was fast when I read the article, suddenly it's very slow (as in, 30 seconds to send an email slow).

I'd love to use Google Apps for my business, all employees already have Android phones so from that point of view it's a great idea. Things like this are what is stopping me from actually doing it.

That and I don't know if I could stand to be parted from mutt.

i hope they can move all others accounts, including mine, to a different set of servers

squeaky wheel...

maybe they had you on an old cluster of commodore 64s they had repurposed for serving gmail?

This is ridiculous, my ex-girlfriend once had this problem and she emailed support (I suggested her to do that) and got fixed.

This guy said he tried to send a support request to gmail but I bet he didn't. He said he had trouble finding the forms but even my ex found them.