You were looking forward to binging one of the best rom-coms of the year tonight on Netflix, “Nobody Wants This,” starring Adam Brody and Kristen Bell. After all, everyone at work has been talking about the film and you were the only one in your clique who hadn’t viewed any of it. So after surviving a tough day at the office you head home, get comfortable, turn on Netflix and…nothing happens because the streamer is down.
Netflix goes down just before the Tyson-Paul fight is scheduled to start. | Image credit-Downdetector
The issue could be related to the Mike Tyson-Jake Paul fight which is being streamed tonight on the platform. Most of the written complaints from Netflix users were related to the fight which was free for paid Netflix subscribers. Many said that their connection was constantly getting buffered. Other complained that the video feed was hard to look at while others said that they had no audio.
Despite numerous complaints on Downdetector complaining that the service is down, Netflix says that it is up and streaming. | Image credit-Netflix
These complaints keep coming in to Downdetector with comments suggesting that Netflix stick to movies instead of live events. Others said that Netflix can’t handle internet traffic.
Despite the large number of Netflix subscribers complaining about the service being down, the streamer’s own status page says that Netflix is up and is not experiencing any interruption to its streaming. Back to Downdetector, the outage map shows that Netflix is having1 problems in major cities like New York, Detroit, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Phoenix, and Los Angeles.
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