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Purveyor

(29,876 posts) Sat Oct 19, 2013, 05:33 PM Oct 2013

Level 3 Outage Disrupts East Coast Internet Traffic

Source: WSJ

Internet users from New York to Philadelphia reported Internet service ranging from spotty to nonexistent Saturday after a connection run by Level 3 Communications Inc. LVLT +0.25% broke down.

A spokesman for the Internet service provider said technicians were still working to figure out the cause of 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.

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It wasn't immediately clear Saturday why traffic from cable subscribers in New York and New Jersey wasn't rerouted around Level 3. Customers reported some sites like Facebook and Twitter were unavailable, while other Web addresses reached subscribers smoothly.

Read more: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304864504579145813698584246

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Level 3 Outage Disrupts East Coast Internet Traffic (Original Post) Purveyor Oct 2013 OP

"This is only a test." tofuandbeer Oct 2013 #1

This is only a test. Do not run in circles, scream and shout. This is only a test. hobbit709 Oct 2013 #2

Go Verizon Fios!! woo hoooo!!! Southside Oct 2013 #3

I'm in Philadelphia, and noted no change today Heddi Oct 2013 #4

NYC_SKP SKP +1.15% at Democratic Underground DU DUCM +0.33% wants a refund from Comcast CMCA +0.14% NYC_SKP Oct 2013 #5

HAHAHAHA! elleng Oct 2013 #6

Okay Liberalagogo Oct 2013 #7

So last Saturday they shut down the EBT system for a few hours and Twitter and Facebook blewup legcramp Oct 2013 #8

Yeah, it's all a big conspiracy..It couldn't be something like a software bug in a DWDM system snooper2 Oct 2013 #12

Yeah. TBH, they couldn't shut down the whole 'Net even if they wanted to..... AverageJoe90 Oct 2013 #14

Wait, was it a "level 3 outage" or an outage of equipment owned by "level 3"? Warren Stupidity Oct 2013 #9

Oops! Someone Dropped the Internet Poincare Oct 2013 #10

Glad to know it wasn't me. Ruby the Liberal Oct 2013 #11

Someone must have tripped on a cord & pulled a plug in the server room. Myrina Oct 2013 #13

tofuandbeer

(1,314 posts)

1. "This is only a test."

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Sat Oct 19, 2013, 05:35 PM

Oct 2013

hobbit709

(41,694 posts)

2. This is only a test. Do not run in circles, scream and shout. This is only a test.

Reply to tofuandbeer (Reply #1)

Sat Oct 19, 2013, 05:40 PM

Oct 2013

Southside

(338 posts)

3. Go Verizon Fios!! woo hoooo!!!

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Sat Oct 19, 2013, 05:42 PM

Oct 2013

Blame the Tea Party

Hope the service comes back soon

Heddi

(18,312 posts)

4. I'm in Philadelphia, and noted no change today

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Sat Oct 19, 2013, 05:43 PM

Oct 2013

It was slow as molasses last night around 8pm, but everything has been wonderful in the Heddi Household today...

NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)

5. NYC_SKP SKP +1.15% at Democratic Underground DU DUCM +0.33% wants a refund from Comcast CMCA +0.14%

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Sat Oct 19, 2013, 05:46 PM

Oct 2013

Right fucking now!

elleng

(130,972 posts)

6. HAHAHAHA!

Reply to NYC_SKP (Reply #5)

Sat Oct 19, 2013, 06:06 PM

Oct 2013

Liberalagogo

(1,770 posts)

7. Okay

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Sat Oct 19, 2013, 06:24 PM

Oct 2013

Blaming Obama in 5....4....3....2.....

legcramp

(288 posts)

8. So last Saturday they shut down the EBT system for a few hours and Twitter and Facebook blewup

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Sat Oct 19, 2013, 08:41 PM

Oct 2013

This week they're testing how to shut down the internet BEFORE they shutdown the foodstamps so people can't organize.

See how that works? Like mushrooms growing in the dark on piles of shit.

snooper2

(30,151 posts)

12. Yeah, it's all a big conspiracy..It couldn't be something like a software bug in a DWDM system

Reply to legcramp (Reply #8)

Mon Oct 21, 2013, 09:37 AM

Oct 2013

or some 10G interfaces reporting false conditions...

Ma', the MAN is gonna' gotcha me! LOL

AverageJoe90

(10,745 posts)

14. Yeah. TBH, they couldn't shut down the whole 'Net even if they wanted to.....

Reply to snooper2 (Reply #12)

Mon Oct 21, 2013, 08:06 PM

Oct 2013

Contrary to what you might hear on the Alex Jones Show, of course.

Warren Stupidity

(48,181 posts)

9. Wait, was it a "level 3 outage" or an outage of equipment owned by "level 3"?

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Sat Oct 19, 2013, 08:46 PM

Oct 2013

Level 3 should change their stupid ass name. Or stop having outages.

Poincare

(11 posts)

10. Oops! Someone Dropped the Internet

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Sat Oct 19, 2013, 11:07 PM

Oct 2013

Ruby the Liberal

(26,219 posts)

11. Glad to know it wasn't me.

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Sun Oct 20, 2013, 10:22 PM

Oct 2013

I am in the corridor and had horrific connection issues yesterday.

Myrina

(12,296 posts)

13. Someone must have tripped on a cord & pulled a plug in the server room.

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Mon Oct 21, 2013, 11:00 AM

Oct 2013

I had an Infrastructure manager who did that once. Took 16 branch offices down in the middle of the day. And wouldn't own up to it.
We even ran a report on the badge swipes to the server room & he was the last one in prior to everything tanking.

Derp!!

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