Comcast's Xfinity Internet suddenly breaks down all over america, reason unknown - Sensationalist Headlines

[url]https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/6/16614160/comcast-xfinity-internet-down-reports[/url] [QUOTE]Comcast's internet service, Xfinity, appears to be suffering an outage across the country. DownDetector.com shows it being down around the United States, including in large cities like San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Boston. So far, online reports don't suggest that TV service or home phones are affected. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE]The outage appears to have began around 1 PM ET. Some users report intermittent or slow services, while others were unable to access the web at all.[/QUOTE] [media]https://twitter.com/thevowel/status/927609259520434176[/media]

Gee, maybe if they invested some of their money into actually upgrading infrastructure instead of just pissing about with their monopoly this wouldn't have happened. With that aside, I hope that gets fixed and quickly. Actual businesses rely on them and they're probably hemorrhaging right now from the downtime out of nowhere.

I live in the blue circle talk about dodging a bullet [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/U28NN0A.png[/IMG] Although, a lot of web connections require a reload to go through properly. It seems like if it chooses a routing path that goes through a dead zone the connection doesn't complete.

Man, it's almost like having a huge amount of the country's infrastructure all tied up in the hands of a single private entity can be a bad idea.

[QUOTE=kharkovus;52863337]Man, it's almost like having a huge amount of the country's infrastructure all tied up in the hands of a single private entity can be a bad idea.[/QUOTE] Said single private entity gives me shitloads (and I mean [I]shitloads[/I]) of money so I disagree. -Some politician, probably

In Denver with Xfinity. Had a bit of slowness a few hours ago but nothing else really.

I can see this being a uptime issue with one of the interconnection racks in NYC. There's a building at 60 Hudson St that I toured where all of the ISPs connect to each other, and the transatlantic cables terminate. If anything there went down, millions would be affected worldwide.

Probably just getting ready to implement them high and low speed lanes

Experienced this in Pennsylvania, didnt go completely down at any point but speeds were extremely slow for awhile. Took me what felt like 20 minutes just to open a single image on imgur.

[QUOTE=Socram;52863361]In Denver with Xfinity. Had a bit of slowness a few hours ago but nothing else really.[/QUOTE] Illinois, same story. There is an Xfinitiy truck parked on my street but I'm not sure how much that means.

Couldn't even get Pandora to buffer songs a few hours ago (from MA). I was wondering whether I'd hear something about it.

[QUOTE=kharkovus;52863337]Man, it's almost like having a huge amount of the country's infrastructure all tied up in the hands of a single private entity can be a bad idea.[/QUOTE] this is one thing that alex jones and the sort have a point about

Spectrum had a similar outage the other day, various parts of Texas and the US were effected by a widespread outage. It was pretty rough, I went outside and ran errands.

Service is fine here in Maryland. Strange that this is going on.

Yeah, it's very strange. I'm dead in one of the red zones on the east coast but surprisingly, for once, my internet is actually useble, like it's -almost- what I fucking pay for.

in chicago, been having problems with extremely slow connections at random blips the past week, then last night and today I couldn't even load facebook and facepunch kept giving me bad gateway errors. Comcast site wouldn't load and I couldn't google up any relevant news, thought my router may have been on the fritz of course after spending 5 minutes loading speedtest.net then 5 more waiting after clicking 'test', my test came back at 9 ping and 90mbps, [I]above [/I]what I'm paying for. SURE IT IS. Looking at network traffic I was getting random blips of 16kbps data download when trying to load shit after some earlier attempts earlier today, teamviewer decided to randomly follow through with my requests and opened up to to my home computer in the middle of working about 2 hours ago. Since then everything seems to be loading fine

Is this also why Snapchat is down?

[QUOTE=dai;52863435] of course after spending 5 minutes loading speedtest.net then 5 more waiting after clicking 'test', my test came back at 9 ping and 90mbps, a bit above what I'm paying for. SURE IT IS.[/QUOTE] use [url]https://fast.com[/url] to slow down the internet they need to slow down netflix servers, which this site uses to test.

My internet wasn't down but I definitely had some severe slowness.

[QUOTE=booster;52863439]Is this also why Snapchat is down?[/QUOTE] probably

[QUOTE=Wii60;52863440]use [url]https://fast.com[/url] to slow down the internet they need to slow down netflix servers, which this site uses to test.[/QUOTE] I'm confused as to the 'slowing down the internet by slowing down netflix servers' part but I'll keep it in mind. Internet seems to be OK now as I'm browsing through my home comp via teamviewer and everything feels normal. also pre-emptive [highlight]'nobody post speedtest results'[/highlight] thanks

How long before Russia is instigated into this?

[QUOTE=booster;52863439]Is this also why Snapchat is down?[/QUOTE] yup. i cant wait to hear the endless crying of teens and young adults because they cant access snapchat if you want to get mad, check out the snapchat support twitter account. There's people actually getting pissed because the support is helping out people with accounts and not fixing the outage lol they seem to think that snapchat is a small dev team that cant tweet and fix the servers at the same time any guesses on how long this is going to take?

level3 was having issues that's why [editline]6th November 2017[/editline] [media]https://twitter.com/Level3NOC/status/927633534424141824[/media]

Charter had the sames issues a few weeks ago where everyone's internet shit out.

postmortem appears to be a msiconfigured BGP push someone tried to shove the world's traffic directed for comcast through level 3, and they didn't have the bandwidth to support it at their borders so both L3 and comcast degraded heavily

[QUOTE=milktree;52863400]this is one thing that alex jones and the sort have a point about[/QUOTE] Any person with common sense would say that's a very bad idea.

[QUOTE=Sombrero;52863509]Charter had the sames issues a few weeks ago where everyone's internet shit out.[/QUOTE] Charter's been shitting out frequently over the past few weeks, I get (sometimes multiple) downtime of 10-20 minutes a day at random times.

Lmao I just switched to atnt a few days ago.

Company has a location in Vermont that luckily didn't go down but their ping shot up to 50 to 100ms.