Week 38, 2026 · Sep 7 – Sep 13

Covers Monday Sep 7 00:00 to Monday Sep 14 00:00 UTC.

How to read this: we measure millions of internet routes around the world. Every speed number below is how many milliseconds (thousandths of a second) slower a route ran than its own normal speed, so higher is worse. Each section says whether things got better or worse than last week.

Gateway Communications (Belgium)’s rough weekthe week’s story

Worse than last week. Gateway Communications (Belgium) is one of the large networks that carry internet traffic between countries. Routes through it ran 28.5 milliseconds slower than normal on average this week (last week: 27.3). 2,532 routes through it were badly slowed (more than 25 milliseconds over normal) at some point. The chart shows how many, hour by hour:

Signed-in customers see the affected routes, the carrier on each side of every changed handoff, and the regional split on the Global fleet view.

The networks that slowed down the most

Large carrier networks, ranked by how much slower than normal their routes ran this week. Big networks get no allowance for their size.

Network	this week, hour by hour	slower than normal	routes badly slowed	last week	compared with last week
SG.GS (Singapore network operator)		46.7 ms	864	46.6 ms	About the same as last week
Bharti Airtel Limited		33.2 ms	1,850	34.0 ms	About the same as last week
FLAG Telecom		30.2 ms	252	28.3 ms	Worse than last week
Gateway Communications (Belgium)		28.5 ms	2,532	27.3 ms	Worse than last week
TransTelecom		26.8 ms	538	27.2 ms	About the same as last week
SEACOM		25.8 ms	410	—	New to this list this week

“Routes badly slowed” counts routes that ran more than 25 milliseconds over normal at some point this week.

1,156 outages and problems reported by companies

Fewer than last week (down 23%). These are problems online services posted on their own status pages. Last week: 1,505.

Online business software (SaaS) had the most problems again, as it usually does.

What tended to break, in providers’ own words: connectivity ×123 · slowness ×79 · auth & login ×77 · elevated errors ×45

Longest problems to fix: Exact — Exact Online - Deduplication not finding double accounts (NL/BE) (476 hours, about 20 days); DarwinCX — Transactions held in queue (473 hours, about 20 days); Lob — Errors when logging in (467 hours, about 19 days).

Ground eventsthe physical world, and whether the internet flinched

Ongoing, week 13 of tracking: Iran, worse than last week. The government keeps the internet slow and filtered, and a bill giving it tighter control over the country's links to the outside internet has sat with lawmakers since Aug 26 with no vote date. Routes into Iran (61 we measure) ran 7.8 milliseconds slower than normal, up from 4.8 last week.

We cover earthquakes of magnitude 7.0 or more and storms at the top two disaster alert levels. “Our fleet’s view” is what our own measurements saw, not a damage report.

Subsea watchwhere the internet is wet

Also on the wire this week: Fitburg Trial Opens Over Baltic Cable Damage (2026-09-08); Vocus ASC Fault Disrupts Australia-Singapore Traffic (2026-09-08).

China’s internet gateways

China’s three big carriers control most traffic in and out of the country. We check how much of each network we can reach from outside China. The percentage is how much we reached; “normal” is its usual level. Lower means more is blocked or unreachable.

“About normal” means within 3 percentage points of the usual level.

For the feedpaste-ready

Every figure derives from SquidGrid’s own measurement fleet and its archive of provider-published incidents; provider self-reports are labeled as such. Provider Assessment Reports carry the per-provider detail. The internet was mostly fine this week. We measured anyway.