Posted on 10/19/2013 7:30:35 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey
Internet users from Brooklyn to Philadelphia suffered slow to nonexistent service Saturday after equipment at a New York-area network hub broke down, disrupting service for several hours.
A spokesman for the Internet service provider Level 3 Communications Inc. LVLT +0.25% said technicians were working quickly to fix the outage, which cascaded down to customers using Cablevision Systems Corp.'s CVC -0.45% Optimum service and Time Warner Cable Inc., TWC -0.36% among others.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
Maybe this is a practice run.
Yup.
Test.......test.......
NSA equipment install.
NSA equipment FAIL.
SO you’re not IN alaska?...
I put nothing past The Great Leaders Planners...
the timing is UNCANNY!
very darned likely.
a test at best...
testing our PATIENCE..is what these OBAMA people seem to be all about at the moment.
Close to nil, but don't let it stop you.
After that they can go on and fix those Obamacare glitches.
The Internet isn’t that old. Some of the first generation equipment is still online. Not much, but some. The usage volume growth exponentially exceeded anyone’s predictions when they were building out the backbone. It’s a miracle there haven’t been -more- massive outages in the last decade.
perhaps theres some malicious code.....Yes, malicious code embedded in the ObamaScare website thats just “gone off”...?
can you think of a less auspicious time for this to have just coincidentally occured?
Is that the operative factor for you? How “convenient” it is?
given the enemies proclivity to be disruptive? yes I am concerned.
Rg recgnical specifics I know next to nothing about.
if this was an accident...Im AM certain that there are those who are rubbing their hands in glee ANYWAY
Dude. Stuff breaks down once in a while.
story is behind a paywall. Anyone have a free site?
Oddly enough I cant get return access.
I have no paid access yet my first visit to the page did not ask for a password, nor did it disallow me form accessing the article.
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304864504579145813698584246
looks to work. From drudge to wsj.
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