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Massive Comcast Outage Hits the US

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Re: Massive Comcast Outage Hits the US

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Post by jasoncartwright »

bkmartin wrote: post #15

I'm on Comcast and cannot get to Twitter and a few other places... But Netflix and YouTube work just fine. I wonder why I can get to some stuff but not others...

Netflix and YouTube have caches inside Comcast's network. That'll probably be why they are still serving?

https://openconnect.netflix.com/en_gb/

https://peering.google.com/#/options/google-global-cache

Re: Massive Comcast Outage Hits the US

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Post by GilbertErik »

gm-conspiracy wrote: post #14
GilbertErik wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks Ajit!

Serious question, anybody try VPN, and then connect to AWS?

I didn't notice for a while because my primary Amazon Workspace wasn't affected, but when various requests weren't working on wifi but were working from my cell phone, that's when I figured out something was up.

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Post by GilbertErik »

gm-conspiracy wrote: post #18
GilbertErik wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Confirming from S.Florida. I can get to some/most of my AWS workspaces and GCE instances, but not to wikipedia.org... unless I turn on my VPN in which cases they block some traffic or make me go through JS verification, but then at least wikipedia works. :-(

Is your VPN IPSec or SSL or other?

I'm using PIA

Re: Massive Comcast Outage Hits the US

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Post by abhiminator »

gm-conspiracy wrote: post #20
LeoPanthera wrote: post #17

On Comcast here in the bay area. Some sites are fine. Some are just gone. Luckily, my corp VPN endpoint is accessible, and if I VPN out, I can get to everything again.

This leads me to believe they are testing to see what they can get away with for fastlane access.

If what you're saying turns out to be true, it would be very disturbing.

Disrupting your paying customer's access with unannounced 'tests' is a sure-fire way to torpedo your brand value and rating.

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Post by drewr »

I use them at work and home (no choice). From a technical perspective, Comcast is usually rock-solid for me. Sure it's expensive, and an absolute joke that I have to call every year to keep the discounts and a TV plan that I don't use, but I'll give credit where they have actually done a good job. I'd much rather a stable service that's a bit of a pain on the billing side than a terrible service that has a nice website.

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Post by ajmurmann »

makecheck wrote: post #16

Well, we all know they’ll learn to do better because of this: they’ll take all that money from monthly fees and make sure to improve quality of service! Right? Nope. They’ll probably raise prices if anything, and receive no ill effects as a company for basically failing to provide what they happily accept money for. (Buried somewhere in an “update” to Terms of Service, they probably pardon themselves from exactly thi…

Of course nothing will happen. Comcast is too good at lobbying and Internet still doesn't get treated with the same legal importance as other infrastructure like road, running water or even snail mail.

Re: Massive Comcast Outage Hits the US

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Post by bkmartin »

jasoncartwright wrote: post #21
bkmartin wrote: post #15

I'm on Comcast and cannot get to Twitter and a few other places... But Netflix and YouTube work just fine. I wonder why I can get to some stuff but not others...

Netflix and YouTube have caches inside Comcast's network. That'll probably be why they are still serving? https://openconnect.netflix.com/en_gb/ https://peering.google.com/#/options/google-global-cache

I'm on HN...seeing your update...I an connect to my employer remotely... Feels like Comcast is not the whole story...
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