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Re: East Coast Internet Outage

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Post by slivanes »

abstractbarista wrote: post #88
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.

How does does one use over 1TB a day?

Re: East Coast Internet Outage

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Post by frakkingcylons »

abstractbarista wrote: post #88
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.

Wow 1TB per day? What is using all that bandwidth? (if you don't mind me asking)

Re: East Coast Internet Outage

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Post by trimbo »

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.

Unlimited data is $30 extra.

https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/exp-unlimited-data

Re: East Coast Internet Outage

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Post by Animats »

Too much is failing from single point outages. The FCC may have to establish standards to prevent over-centralization.

In the entire history of the Bell System, no electromechanical central office was ever down for more than 30 minutes for any reason than a natural disaster or, one occasion, a major file. That record has not been maintained in the Internet era.

Re: East Coast Internet Outage

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Post by kube-system »

2dollars27cents wrote: post #93

I have no technical understanding of fiber networks. The explanation that this was caused by one fiber line in Brooklyn being severed seems unlikely. Curious to see what the experts think.

I wouldn't doubt it. Single misconfigured routers have caused issues of similar scale.

Re: East Coast Internet Outage

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Post by luxuryballs »

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.

FIOS is WAY better, they will fix their broken cable. I get (so far unlimited) 30gb up/down for $40/mo but it typically runs closer to 60 down 70 up. Fiber optic is baller. Though I do feel like they throttle me (web browsing becomes slow) if I am watching a streaming video service or mining crypto without a VPN on, could be an illusion but it always tends to clear up as soon as I activate the VPN.

Re: East Coast Internet Outage

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Post by SteveGerencser »

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 love these posts. They remind me that there are places in the world where technology is moving forward. Where we live in Tennessee I have to run 2 internet connections to be able to have a service when I need it. 3gb DSL and a 5gb satellite connection. The sat connection has the additional bonus of being capped at 150Gb per month. All these new streaming services may as well not even exist for those of us in rural areas.

Re: East Coast Internet Outage

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Post by sleepysysadmin »

>There is a fiber cut in Brooklyn. We have no ETR, as of yet.

A fiber cut auto heals automatically via bgp. Absolutely no truth in this claim from verizon.

Meanwhile google, zoom, aws, and microsoft went down?

There isn't any shared datacenters here. There's at least 3 distinct datacenters.

So what's the truth? what actually went down?

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