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Is there a wider internet outage today?

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Re: Is there a wider internet outage today?

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Post by throwaway742 »

el_benhameen wrote: post #35
xboxnolifes wrote: post #31

I don't know if this was related, but earlier today my personal internet dropped to 1mbps down for at least 30 minutes. Also had 40% packet loss using the cloudflare speed test on a wired connection. East coast, USA.

I had the same thing happen. I assumed it was my suboptimal wifi setup acting up again and almost got back to researching mesh systems.

hardwired APs > mesh

Re: Is there a wider internet outage today?

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Post by unstatusthequo »

rayiner wrote: post #24
acomjean wrote: post #23

Perhaps. Our outlook mail failed today. They said its back, but its still kind of flaky.

Oh shit. I assumed outlook was being flaky because my inbox is 10gb.

Nothing. Have seen ones over 125gb. Something to strive for? ;)

Re: Is there a wider internet outage today?

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Post by ggm »

I like the second-order effect here, of measuring how people TALK about the outage to measure the outage.

Have a read of:

“Is my Internet down?”: Sifting through User-Affecting Outages with Google Trends Ege Cem Kırcı, Martin Vahlensieck, and Laurent Vanbever IMC '22

which is also discussed on PING (podcast at APNIC) and on the APNIC blog (disclaimer: I helped publish this)

https://blog.apnic.net/2023/02/10/towards-a-systematic-user-...

https://blubrry.com/ping_podcast/93464445/is-my-internet-dow...

Re: Is there a wider internet outage today?

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Post by deathanatos »

hunter2_ wrote: post #46
deathanatos wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, actually, the Android phone app put those on the screen. (And yeah, not the more familiar/classic POTS voice message "We're sorry, the number you dialed…") (Quite … uselessly, too. An error in text form when the phone is against my ear is not helpful.)

POTS has "no mobile capabilities" and is strictly "analog signal transmission over copper loops" [0] so I suspect that's the source of confusion in this case. PSTN is probably the acronym you meant, which refers to "Originally a network of fixed-line analog telephone systems, the PSTN is almost entirely digital in its core network and includes mobile and wireless networks" [1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain…

Ha, duly noted. Same system to me, I guess. Still a new, never before seen error.

Re: Is there a wider internet outage today?

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Post by dredmorbius »

dang wrote: post #64
midasuni wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HN timeouts only applied while logged in with me

Correct - logged out pages are cached and should serve much faster.

NB, someone was commenting a week ago that HN was observed as faster when logged in, not out:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36117794>

Re: Is there a wider internet outage today?

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Post by b112 »

nubinetwork wrote: post #60
ftxbro wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> "We have identified the problem as a street cut impacting hundreds of fiber-optic strands"

Interesting, usually this sort of thing turns up on the NANOG mailing list, but it's been pretty quiet over there.

NANOG seems mostly dead these days?

It was so active 10+ years ago, but I think it's basically gone?

Re: Is there a wider internet outage today?

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Post by nubinetwork »

b112 wrote: post #78
nubinetwork wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting, usually this sort of thing turns up on the NANOG mailing list, but it's been pretty quiet over there.

NANOG seems mostly dead these days? It was so active 10+ years ago, but I think it's basically gone?

Yeah I'm not sure what's up with that... I remember reading a thread on it last year about fires at various Colo DC'S.
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