Same thing happened to me yesterday as well.
Thanks for posting
FR is set as my home page and lately, I have had problems where it will take a minute or so for the page to load.
I have high speed internet as well and I have noticed even Yahoo email was not acting right on/off this past week.
We’re doomed!
Seriously, interesting little tidbit. Sounds more like a SNAFU than anything nefarious though.
” I then proceeded to do some checking on my own, I was able to ping the sites I could not connect to, but unable to do anything else(web/Mail/Telnet) etc. to these sites.
Which meant there was a routing problem, had I not talked to others in the same boat I would have assumed I had a bad router. So I instead decided to go do something and come back later. “
If there was a routing problem you wouldn’t have been pinging anything.
How do you think the ping packets found their way back and forth?
Aer yuo logeged inn?
Dude! That link may be “Post-Neolithic” but just barely. 1997? Whatever the problem was back then I seriously doubt its relevant to your recent problems ... ;-)
I got disconnected yesterday, but I chalked it up to the storms we had, even though we didn’t lose power. Resetting the modem did the trick.
The article you linked to... was from 1997.
Those are neolithic times :)
I have Comcast here in the Chicago suburbs and have been home all week on vacation. My PC has been on all day long every day and connected to the Internet so that I can check FR frequently without having to boot up each time. I haven’t had any problems at all.
This answers some questions for me, I thought it was my computer.
My webtv/msn mail box was down yesterday too.
Extremely rare.
By chance, was this between ~5:30 and 7 pm ET?