Not sure what gives, but something’s hoarked with t3h int3rw3bz for me today. Looks like something in one of Time Warner Cable’s backbones or maybe GBLX is failing. Something up in the DFW area, from what diagnostics I can run.
Of course, trying to get a hold of someone with a clue at TWC is impossible. Stupid voice response menus that navigate you to nowhere useful. The constant drone of “sorry, this department doesn’t handle that; let me transfer you to the department that does” and repeat that about 5 times and 20 minutes before I decide to just hang up. Be a sucker for punishment and try again (thank God for my office phone headset), and get the same clueless runaround.
Even getting to Google is a challenge.
It’s been too damn painful to be online all day. Not going to keep hurting myself with it tonight.
Going to go do something novel, like read a book. 🙂
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I have been having problems up here in Eastern TN as well, but I had written it off to local (as in “my apartment’s”) network hiccups… maybe not.
Some strong storms rolled through Texas yesterday, knocking out power in a lot of places. Given what I could see on my traceroutes and such, it seems something up in the Dallas-Fort Worth area got nailed… some major router or some such. So I wouldn’t be surprised if, depending where you were going online, if it tried to funnel through there and was failing.
But, all feels better this morning.
How fragile these intertubes are.