[Mount Athos]

If a brief connection glitch makes you think the world is ending, you might be a little too attached to the internet

[lonevoice]

This.

[Bikkuri]

Not the end of the world... just a ‘glitch’ in communication...

[null and void]

If a brief connection glitch makes you think the world is ending, you might be a little too attached to the internet

Too attached to the internet?

Is such a thing even possible?

[wally_bert]

I’ve been going through bouts of random DNS loss.

There is a new router, new cable modem, and TWC has been out here several times. They’ve even looked at the logs and saw only a few drops over a couple month period.

Traffic will grind to a halt, webpages stop loading, streaming media stops and the PCs will cycle through the hardwire connection, wi-fi, then no connectivity. Refreshing a page will give a DNS error.

I have tried other DNS addresses. Still random drops.

Within about 10 minutes, it will come back.

The router has up to date firmware, the modem as well as of a couple of days ago.

Very weird.