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AskWoody_MVPNovember 6, 2017 at 5:50 pm #144190Several of our clients on Comcast Fiber had intermittent issues all day today, I went partially down on Coax service at my office. What was odd is that some sites seemed fine, others not. It looks very much like one of the main trunks that Comcast interlinks with was having issues – but not all of them.
Whatever it was, things seem much better this evening since about 3:45 PM MST.
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GuestNovember 6, 2017 at 10:09 pm #144232OT: Comcast and fiends want to keep attempting to further dissolve customer privacy.
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AskWoody_MVPNovember 6, 2017 at 10:28 pm #144242Looks like it wasn’t really Comcast’s fault.
https://www.wired.com/story/how-a-tiny-error-shut-off-the-internet-for-parts-of-the-us/
Some tech at Level 3 had an oops moment.
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AskWoody_MVPNovember 7, 2017 at 6:12 am #144329It wasn’t just business Comcast. I’m Residential Comcast Blast Tier, in Waltham, MA, outside Boston.
I got hit by this, although businesses were screaming the loudest. Hard to work online at home, too. I had to disconnect and reconnect all my networked devices once things began to settle down a bit.
Hard to believe one tech working on the Internet Backbone, and by the way, for a company owned by CenturyLink, a Comcast competitor, can have such a devastating impact for such a long period of time on so many customers. What ever happened to the redundancy we’ve been told there is in the Internet Backbone? If this had been a cyber-attack, all would be lost.
Also noteworthy was that RCN, another Comcast competitor, got rerouted very fast after the “error”. Why can’t Comcast, a much bigger player, get its traffic rerouted in a similar way?
This whole day reminds us of just how far behind the rest of the world the US Internet infrastructure is. Lack of competition in local markets is partly to blame, but something else seems to drive the inertia. I wonder what those forces, market and political, may be?
This needs to be addressed, and yesterday (faster than ASAP)!
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