At around 6:00 PM on June 25, 2009, a reporter's QQ suddenly went offline automatically and could not be logged in again, with the prompt "Network connection timed out, please check your network connection." Afterwards, the reporter found on various forums that a large number of netizens posted that their QQ had gone offline, and they were located in different cities such as Guangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing, and Hangzhou. Netizens speculated about the reason for the unexpected disconnection of QQ. A netizen from Guangzhou revealed that it might be related to the Guangdong Telecom router.