It really seems to be something else. All over the web there are hick ups and slow downs. I suspect there is so much incoming ddos and other attack types that network admins are daily and hourly scrambling to keep the integrity of the network up.
In Chrome browser only, go to http://maps.ipviking.com. It is optimized to chrome and is the only use I have for chrome.
I just tried the link is my 64bit Firefox flavor and it works now and did not used to.
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