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Re: East Coast Internet Outage

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Post by willcipriano » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 6:33 PM UTC

dave_aiello wrote: post #79

Right now in my part of Bucks County, PA, FiOS' gigabit speed internet is running about normal speed for download and about 3/4 of normal for upload.

Small world, I'm in the same place. I noticed long periods of dropped packets, it looks like existing connections are ok but establishing a new one is a problem. My wife working over a VPN doesn't notice a issue.

Re: East Coast Internet Outage

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Post by sweetheart » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 6:41 PM UTC

dave_aiello wrote: post #79

Right now in my part of Bucks County, PA, FiOS' gigabit speed internet is running about normal speed for download and about 3/4 of normal for upload.

Bucks County represent!

Re: East Coast Internet Outage

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Post by neogodless » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 6:52 PM UTC

dave_aiello wrote: post #79

Right now in my part of Bucks County, PA, FiOS' gigabit speed internet is running about normal speed for download and about 3/4 of normal for upload.

I was getting 2 Mbps upstream on FiOS just after noon today! But it seems largely back to normal now. (I have 200/200, not Gigabit.)

Re: East Coast Internet Outage

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Post by Gene_Parmesan » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 6:59 PM UTC

When half of my coworkers on a Zoom call (including myself) got kicked within ten seconds of each other, I figured something major had happened. Western PA. Was somewhere around 11:24 EST.

Network never went down completely, bitrate just took a nosedive.

Re: East Coast Internet Outage

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Post by arthurcolle » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 7:03 PM UTC

I was just about to call FiOS to switch from Xfinity because these data caps are absolutely ridiculous. I am sad now.

Aside: Comcast, wtf? 1.2 TB limit per month? Seriously if anyone works at Comcast know that I hate your company with an overwhelming passion.

Re: East Coast Internet Outage

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Post by lxgr » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 7:05 PM UTC

Ansil849 wrote: post #62

Why is this post not showing up on the HN homepage?

Maybe affected users can't upvote and not affected users don't care enough?

Re: East Coast Internet Outage

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Post by garettmd » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 7:08 PM UTC

arthurcolle wrote: post #85

I was just about to call FiOS to switch from Xfinity because these data caps are absolutely ridiculous. I am sad now. Aside: Comcast, wtf? 1.2 TB limit per month? Seriously if anyone works at Comcast know that I hate your company with an overwhelming passion.

To be fair, I've had FiOS for more than a year now, and this is the first incident I've had with them. I'm pretty comfortable saying they have a much better reputation than Comcast...

Re: East Coast Internet Outage

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Post by abstractbarista » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 7:10 PM UTC

arthurcolle wrote: post #85

I was just about to call FiOS to switch from Xfinity because these data caps are absolutely ridiculous. I am sad now. Aside: Comcast, wtf? 1.2 TB limit per month? Seriously if anyone works at Comcast know that I hate your company with an overwhelming passion.

Wow, that's crazy. I use over 1TB a day. Forever thankful for Google Fiber.

Re: East Coast Internet Outage

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Post by vondur » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 7:10 PM UTC

arthurcolle wrote: post #85

I was just about to call FiOS to switch from Xfinity because these data caps are absolutely ridiculous. I am sad now. Aside: Comcast, wtf? 1.2 TB limit per month? Seriously if anyone works at Comcast know that I hate your company with an overwhelming passion.

I've had FIOS service since 2007 or so here in SoCal and I can count the outages over this period on one hand.

Re: East Coast Internet Outage

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Post by tomjakubowski » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 7:18 PM UTC

vondur wrote: post #89

arthurcolle wrote: post #85

I was just about to call FiOS to switch from Xfinity because these data caps are absolutely ridiculous. I am sad now. Aside: Comcast, wtf? 1.2 TB limit per month? Seriously if anyone works at Comcast know that I hate your company with an overwhelming passion.

I've had FIOS service since 2007 or so here in SoCal and I can count the outages over this period on one hand.

I was a long-term Fios customer in SoCal, and they were indeed very reliable up until Verizon sold the local service to Frontier. Glad to hear they're not a problem for everyone at least.