East Coast Internet Outage • Hacker News Board

Steltek wrote: post #35

gen220 wrote: post #26

My corporate laptop is affected. My roommate’s corporate laptop is totally unaffected. We’re on the same router/gateway. Any theories out there to explain this phenomenon? Fascinating. (My theory is a network partition, where my roommate’s IP addresses happen to be in regions that are on “our side” of the partition, whereas my IP Addresses are on the “other”, unreachable side).

I didn't do any digging but it seems like once you have a connection established, it's not too bad. Is your roommate on a full-tunnel VPN?

Thanks for the tip; connecting to a full-tunnel VPN seems to fix this for me. (FiOS in Brooklyn).

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Post by boleary-gl » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 5:34 PM UTC

chockablock wrote: post #53

Connecting to a full-tunnel VPN seems to fix this for me. (FiOS in Brooklyn).

Yes! Thank you for this (in hindsight, obvious) idea.

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Post by nycben2 » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 5:34 PM UTC

Verizon is having issues in NYC for sure. https://twitter.com/VerizonSupport/status/135411467509349580...

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Post by Spooky23 » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 5:37 PM UTC

heatmiser wrote: post #37

mroche wrote: post #24

https://twitter.com/VerizonSupport/status/135410988957298278... There is a fiber cut in Brooklyn. We have no ETR, as of yet. You can use the MY Fios app for updates. *EAG

Does a cut cable in BK account for outages up and down the east coast?

Verizon had (and apparently still has) a few vulnerable links in the NYC metro area that have wide ranging impacts.

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Post by Fej » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 5:38 PM UTC

I am on Fios in northeast NJ, issues with some services (Netflix) but not others (Google except significant variance in ping times, Bing, AWS).

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Post by woohoo7676 » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 5:40 PM UTC

chockablock wrote: post #53

Connecting to a full-tunnel VPN seems to fix this for me. (FiOS in Brooklyn).

Thank you! This also fixed my slowdowns.

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Post by NovemberWhiskey » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 5:41 PM UTC

Moogs wrote: post #30

Apparently, Verizon's outage page doesn't actually say if there's an outage. You have to log in to see if there's an outage. Too bad logins are failing after ~10 minutes for me. https://www.verizon.com/support/residential/service-outage

Yeah, I'm getting a 504 from their status site even after managing to get through the authn process.

Although my packet loss to my IPv6 tunnel provider just went to zero, so that's a good sign here (Manhattan).