Massive Outage Hits Comcast, Spectrum and Level 3 Communications (1:24 min)

youtube.com ^ | November 6, 2017 | Youtube vlogger DAHBOO77

[ransomnote]

Video at link is 1:24 minutes in length and was uploaded around 12:50 PST. The video displays a map of regions of outages all occurring in the same place for 3 separate entities (Comcast, Spectrum, Level 3). The vlogger provided the following link for use in learning more about the outages: http://downdetector.com/status/comcast-xfinity/map/

You can change the company viewed but the link is currently set to Comcast-Xfinity.

[BlessedBeGod]

Is that why FR was so excruciatingly slow for me late morning and early afternoon (on Comcast)?

[EEGator]

All three are next to each other on utility poles.

[proxy_user]

Level 3 admits it is them:

Level 3 Network Ops‏ @Level3NOC On Nov. 6, our network experienced a disruption affecting some IP customers due to a configuration error. All are restored

[poinq]

All three use the same hill outside of Denver to up-link to satellites. And they all have large internet wires going from that hill, as well as common satellites.

[b4its2late]

Norse Corp Attack Map

[niki]

Happening+++

[Red Badger]

Then it was probably a squirrel......................

[Paladin2]

"...they all have large internet wires going from that hill.."

Does it look like a pipe?

[CatOwner]

Being a Comcast customer, I suspect the issue is with the wiring *inside* of our house.

Step 1 of the Comcast "tech" playbook. Step 2: Go back to Step 1.

[867V309]

spectrum here, FL, out for hours early this morning. back up by 1pm.

[ransomnote]

LOL!!!

[ransomnote]

Reminds me of the t-shirt sold to computer support nerds. It says PEBKAC and means the support reasoning is that the “real” PROBLEM EXISTS BETWEEN KEYBOARD AND CHAIR.

[cgbg]

The Russians are hacking the local elections! :-)

[so_real]

And this is why it is so important for the Internet to remain a "distributed" and "redundant" system. Putting all our stock in thousands of small providers means small outages in localities. Putting all our stock in a handful of large providers means large outages on a national level. I'll take an inefficient yet highly redundant system over the highly controllable efficient alternative any day.

[shotgun]

Also known as EBCK (ebb-check). ERROR BETWEEN CHAIR and KEYBOARD.

[SubMareener]

Hey! The EMP drill wasn’t supposed to shut anything down.

[usurper]

I'll take an inefficient yet highly redundant system over the highly controllable efficient alternative any day.

I never really thought of it that way but I think you are right.

[Made In The USA]

Help Desk Manager at a company I worked at years ago had a license plate that said RTFM. Good advice!

[EEGator]

Clearly...