Xfinity outage leaves tens of thousands in the Bay Area without internet
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#2This lists last night, but it seems as though there was a big issue this morning as well.
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#3This lists last night, but it seems as though there was a big issue this morning as well.
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#4First thing I think of is that poor engineer who committed the change that managed to bring down Comcast across the country. Oh to be a fly on the wall in that meeting.
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#5First thing I think of is that poor engineer who committed the change that managed to bring down Comcast across the country. Oh to be a fly on the wall in that meeting.
The meeting where everyone will ignore all of the other forces at play that caused the outcome, and pretend that if only Joe or Mary had been better in some way, the whole disaster never would have happened.
Yeah, fuck that shit.
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#6First thing I think of is that poor engineer who committed the change that managed to bring down Comcast across the country. Oh to be a fly on the wall in that meeting.
The meeting where everyone will ignore all of the other forces at play that caused the outcome, and pretend that if only Joe or Mary had been better in some way, the whole disaster never would have happened. Yeah, fuck that shit.
I'd say it's a bit early in the morning to get worked up over something that as of yet took place only in our minds.
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#7Mendocino County, CA--My local Verizon data was also down for at least 10 minutes, likely overloaded due to the sudden outage, and local FM radio had no updates, as they do during events like wildfires or fiber optic cuts.
So for the second Comcast outage in a row, my first line of confirmation on the outage (as opposed to damaged house wiring or hardware or something) was ham radio. I turned on the HT, hit scan, and the first carrier found was a conversation about the outage, a couple cities north. That's always helpful just to get oriented. But funny because there ought to be a better information fallback now that internet service is so crucial. I couldn't even log into the Xfinity app on my phone.
Also, for the first time, I realized that texts using Google messenger's enhanced chat features may not go through at all in this situation, as one would expect normal texts to do. This was worrying because...do I need to disable this feature every time I go hiking now, if I want my texts to send?
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#8Is this some sort of rolling outage? My service didn't skip a beat last night, but I had an outage in my neighborhood from roughly 8-9 AM CST this morning in the Chicago area. The cable modem couldn't get a DHCP lease.
At my office, also nearby, the outage was shorter; it's on a static IP.
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#9> “This comcast outage is a great reminder of why it's still important to download and own physical copies of music, movies, etc.,” @krakinov tweeted.
This is a bizarrely overdramatic response to one provider being down for an hour, and I can't imagine why the author felt the need to include it, other than to further dramatize their own dramatization of a rather innocuous situation.
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#10Is it that rare of an occurrence that it's worth reporting in the newspaper? Comcast goes down in my area a few times a year, every year, for the 20 years I've been handcuffed to them. It's not ideal, but I wouldn't describe it as a newsworthy event.