So I had a really AWFUL week last week using web. My DSL ISP suggested I might need to buy a new modem from them
Then it cleared at 10am on Friday. Everything smooth and snappy.
Had 15 minutes like that Monday and finally got voice-to-voice with DSL provider's (small rural outfit) tech guy. I told him about same phenomem: could surf to web site 1 time in 20 (Safari says, "...you are not connected to internet") ; email connection erratic; BUT (weirdly) I could get streaming audio (NPR) throughout ALL the other disruptions.
Techie said he got on some "Internet Health" site that told him some big chunk of the had been down for couple weeks. And that he had not done anything except reboot one of their servers. (Is a server involved in the routing of such a DSL provider's internet service?)
Anybody here experience such weird disruptions during late Jan/ early Feb? Does this guy sound like he's giving lame excuses? making up stuff?
Anybody know of such a "internet health" site. I found only
http://www.internetpulse.net - which is just dynamic performance: no news stories about major outages. Please tell me what web sites offer news stories about such stuff... so we folks out in the county with the cows can figure out if it's just us getting scrood & mooed.
Gracias!
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