I couldn’t tell if it happened only to me or sporadically, but this is the first time I encountered such a problem. I first noticed it only on my Gmail. But apparently, other Google services such as Google reader is experiencing the same.

There are quite numbers of post with regard to gmail being slow, but I couldn’t find any articles or post, posted on the day I see this issue. That means, Gmail slow is something that’s not new, especially after Gmail 2.0 upgrade.

I was out of town last weekend and bringing along ‘not trustworthy Maxis 3G’ with hope to check email on the move. But unfortunately, most places that I visit has only GPRS connection. So my attempt to open gmail stucked half way at the loading page. So when I was back to my house and when I want to open up my Gmail.. what the heck.. it is this slow, even on broadband internet bandwidth. Could it be that  Google is memorizing how fast the last internet speed that I use, and try to adjust accordingly?But,  even HTML version does not load at all.

As usual, before I went to do something further, I cleared out my Firefox’s cache, closed it and and retried but with no luck. I used another notebook but ending up the same. It couldn’t be my internet connection, since ‘other than Google’ applications and websites were running fine.

I attempted to do this for about 30 minutes, before I gave up. I’m tired. I closed my notebook and grabbed my mobile in my last attempt to access Gmail thorugh mobile using WiFi connection. Amazingly, it loads the email as fast as usual.

I still couldn’t figure out if this happens on certain account only or if there is something going on at Google back end system. Anyway, it’s up back and running fine as usual, so I hope I won’t encounter similar issue again.

If issue persists, the last resort is to visit their help pages.

ps: do you know that in German, Gmail is known as Google Mail