So, way back in the day when I used to work on technical support desks, one of the common things for people to say was “the Internet broke”. Well for anyone who still believes that the Internet is a series of tubes the Internet may like a single entity that can shut itself off,  but back here on planet reality that isn’t quite so true. However internetpulse.net shows you where the potential issue could be occurring if it is not in fact on your own network. In fact when it came to very random browsing issues from a PC that was in fact not having a connection issues I could quite often find the reason why the end user was having a problem with a simple traceroute and checking internetpulse.net.