I just checked other people webistes and the problem is the same - no ads shown and/or pages not loading due to timeout. The only place where ads are shown is Google search page.

I wonder if this issue is widespread or is it just my internet connection.

A friend in the US reported a problem with Adsense loading on my site two days ago, and CTR was through the floor.

I've also noticed the Adwords site taking forever to load certain pages.

So, I'd say its actually Google's problem, not yours, and I for one am quite fed up with Google making its problems my problems.

Just checked a few pages on my sites and everything seems OK.

Do you load image ads or just text ads.

Mine are all text ads.

Just text. I reckon it may be location related.

It is quite bad... A lot of webistes (not jus mine) timeout beacuse they have google ads loading first.

I guess I will have to change my site to use SOC and put ads inside div tags. However I feel somhow this shouldn't be my headache...

Ads seem to display fine in Germany. No problem here.

other threads mention this too:
[webmasterworld.com...]

Anyone from Australia to check?