Anyone else having internet problems?

just me ^ | 4/24/10 | freemike

[freemike]

Just curious. All week long in our area code 570, the internet has been goofy. Verizon has been denying there was a problem until today. The strange thing is, some people with Verizon are fine, some are not. You get on the internet for 10 minutes and then you get kicked off for a few hours, or as little as a few minutes. It's a random thing. And then the other thing is, some people's internet is just fine, yet others are not, all in the same area. How is that? Usually if there is a problem it gets fixed in a few hours yet this has been going on since around Tuesday.

[devolve]

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That new-fangled digital gizmo stuff sho do make life interesting!

[Cyber Liberty]

Mine’s been totally broken for weeks. That’s how I’m posting this now.

[potlatch]

Looks like I came on at the end of the thread but I read all through it and find it interesting that people all over are having cable connection troubles.

Especially when Suddenlink said “the satellite seems to have moved”.

Would I be ‘way out there’ if I said ‘what’s going on?
Why did we just send up a rocket with no explanation of ‘what for’? I better go to bed before my conspiracy ideas go wild, lol.

[Vendome]

Are you logged in?

(hopefully no one else asked before me)(fingers crossed)

[mlocher]

The strange thing is, some people with Verizon are fine, some are not.

Try AT&T. Some of their customers are strange and and some are fine.

[tina07]

Maybe ZerO and his goons are busy getting control of the internet so we have these ‘interruptions’ whilst they fiddle with cyberspace...who knows how far he will reach in ‘fundamentally transforming’ us. Sounds conspiratory I know, but I don’t put anything past this bunch, so my suspicion meter is always way up! Never happened before ZerO was elected...a point to ponder!

I did not like that my landline phone was dead along with the internet, I have an elderly ill mother on oxygen and cannot be cut off like that.

[tina07]

I’m ‘way out there’ too, see my last post, lol!

[Sarajevo]

so here's a picture of tourist guy and bigfoot.

I see TouristGuy was vacationing with the obama's.

/sarc

[freemike]

lol

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

I regularly get ‘kicked’ off by my wife complaining about the time I spend on the ‘puter. Not a Verizon problem though - it must be you.

[potlatch]

I wouldn’t be surprised if Obama tinkered with the internet, it’s the most effective tool against him now.

If the cable company isn’t getting the signal from the satellite correctly, then something’s changed. I also have a phone that is on cable and it was going out too.

I certainly understand your fear of loosing electric power in your mothers case.

[potlatch]

[Especially when Suddenlink said “the satellite seems to have moved”.]

Drudge headline May 11, 2010;

Drifting satellite threatens US cable programming

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9FKQ7QG4&show_article=1

[fanfan]

I don’t understand it but when it finally got corrected I had a new little internet icon in my taskbar and the old one was there but showed ‘not connected’.

That is weird.

Why would that happen?

[potlatch]

Hi fanfan. I still don't know. I have Linksys wireless so I have a router and a modem. I couldn't get to the internet for almost 4 1/2 days a month ago, my ‘connection’ light kept blinking instead of staying on steady.

I thought it was my computer but finally called Suddenlink Cable company twice, the second time they said they were ‘working on it, that the satellite had moved’!

Sounded strange to me but when they got it fixed I suddenly had a new internet icon and I had to reset my wireless connection as it didn't have the proper url anymore.

As a sidenote, I've been fighting a ‘re-director virus’ ever since then and even wonder if they somehow let something get through, left a port open or something when the trouble was happening. I was using Windows Firewall at that time.

I saw the headline on Drudge and thought it just might apply to what happened to me.