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Two Major ISPs Are Suffering Outages, Making the Internet Really Slow Right Now (slate.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the you're-not-imagining-it dept.

Freshly Exhumed writes: Two major backbone internet service providers -- Level 3 and Cogent -- appear to be suffering from massive outages and downgraded service, according to ISP monitoring service Downdetector. Users in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Dallas, Atlanta, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. are apparently being hit the hardest. Comcast is also said to be affected to a lesser degree. "Backbone internet service providers work directly with large internet platforms like Netflix to deliver large amounts of data across networks, and also work behind the scenes of consumer-facing ISPs," reports Slate. "Since the internet is an interconnected mess of wires, disruptions with Level 3 and Cogent could impact service for Comcast and Verizon users in turn."

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  1. This is why we need net neutrality! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Damn it! This is exactly why we need net neutrality. Here we are now living in a world without net neutrality, and this happens so soon. Damn it, people, we need net neutrality!

  2. Quick! Send in the by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    inflatable creimers! They'll clean up that IT storage space and get the internet back up again!

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    Do they have to make them so big?

  3. Situation normal by mrbester · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Comcast is also said to be affected to a lesser degree."

    So, 33.6k instead of the usual 56k then.

    --
    "Wait. Something's happening. It's opening up! My God, it's full of apricots!"