Comcast Problems?
Large swaths of the intertrons are unabilable to me today, and I am wondering if there are problems in the intertrons in general, or if specifically my ComCrap is to blame.
January 28, 2008 2:37 pm
Posted in: Science and Technology, Site Maintenance
36 Comments
36 Responses
cleek - January 28, 2008 | 2:41 pm · Link
Carnivore is hungry today
MNPundit - January 28, 2008 | 2:46 pm · Link
Last week, at my SO’s office someone drilled into their Intertubes.
Perhaps you should go make sure no one is standing on the them? Someone get Ted Stevens outta jail!
Oh, not in jail yet? Justice is slow.
RSA - January 28, 2008 | 2:46 pm · Link
Have you tried flushing out the tubes in your neighborhood? You know, with Electronic-Plumr.
STEVEinSC - January 28, 2008 | 2:48 pm · Link
I use DSL and can’t get Crooks and Liars.
D. Mason - January 28, 2008 | 2:49 pm · Link
I used to do comcast customer service for your area. Comcast treats the former adelphia service area like a garbage dump.
The Grand Panjandrum - January 28, 2008 | 2:49 pm · Link
I sure hope you don’t use FBI accounting procedures to make sure bills get paid. Just saying.
John S. - January 28, 2008 | 2:51 pm · Link
We have ComCrap here at my ofice.
It is the equivalent of sucking shit through a flexi-straw.
sidereal - January 28, 2008 | 2:56 pm · Link
It’s just you. Fire them.
LiberalTarian - January 28, 2008 | 3:06 pm · Link
Huh. I work for CA state, and ours was down for about an hour. Verrrrrry interrrresting.
Fwiffo - January 28, 2008 | 3:09 pm · Link
When in doubt, it’s pretty safe to assume that Comcast is raping your grandmother. It’s Comcastic!
Zifnab - January 28, 2008 | 3:10 pm · Link
ComCrap and TimeoutWarning switched turfs, so we went from crappy-ass Roadrunner access to crappy-ass other guy stuff. Horray!
The only difference in service is that ComCrap specifically fucks you for using bitTorrent. So don’t worry. Even if its not ComCrap, blame them anyway. They probably deserve it for something.
Jay - January 28, 2008 | 3:12 pm · Link
Here on the southern side of the river Mary Draper Ingles followed to get home the Series Of Tubes are conductive.
RandyH - January 28, 2008 | 3:15 pm · Link
Could be their DNS servers are hosed up. (You can resolve some internet domain names, but not others.) Happens sometimes. If they’re aware of the problem, they may have switched to other DNS servers. You may need to restart your cable modem, followed by any router you might have and then your computer for the change to take effect. But they may not know there’s a problem, in which case you’re screwed.
Tim (the other one) - January 28, 2008 | 3:29 pm · Link
Here in So. Cal my Verizon FIOS is on fire ! Highly recommended.
Davis X. Machina - January 28, 2008 | 3:29 pm · Link
‘Net neutrality’ means, apparently, charging you the same monthly fee when your intertubes work, as when they don’t work….
Ripley - January 28, 2008 | 3:30 pm · Link
They’re probably busy reading some other customer’s e-mails or forwarding their traffic info to the NSA. As soon as someone’s free, they’ll be happy to follow you around.
Ed Drone - January 28, 2008 | 3:30 pm · Link
If you can’t get the Internet, how will you read our answers?
Ed
Original Lee - January 28, 2008 | 3:40 pm · Link
Come to the Dark Side, John. Switch to FIOS. Tell your boss that FIOS will save money while increasing productivity. (Hopefully that will work.)
RSA - January 28, 2008 | 3:49 pm · Link
This is a bit off-topic, but I can’t resist, since both John and Michael D. have posted recently about getting in shape. . . In my neck of the woods there’s a new sports event:
Ah, traditions. . .
Bob Munck - January 28, 2008 | 3:52 pm · Link
Comcast has chronic DNS problems. If you know how, tell your router/firewall/PC to use a different DNS server. If you don’t know how, you’ll need to use the intertubes to look it up.
myiq2xu - January 28, 2008 | 3:53 pm · Link
Since you decided to endorse Obama the Clintons have had you banned from the “white” parts of the internet.
You should have chosen wisely.
tom brandt - January 28, 2008 | 4:01 pm · Link
Everything is fine here in the People’s Republic of Ann Arbor.
The Internet Traffic Report is a useful site on what’s happening on the intertubes worldwide. You can drill down into specific areas.
Tim C - January 28, 2008 | 4:04 pm · Link
Two words: Verizon FIOS
T. Scheisskopf - January 28, 2008 | 4:08 pm · Link
The place to go for any skinny on Comcast HSI.
Also, to get around Comcast’s chronic DNS problems, try using these nice people.
Caidence (fmr. Chris) - January 28, 2008 | 4:25 pm · Link
If you’re having a bad time getting your alphanumeric domains converted to IPs, then its your service’s DNS servers acting up (which is a common occurrence).
If that’s the case, try replacing your DNS servers with this for a bit.
Dennis - SGMM - January 28, 2008 | 4:26 pm · Link
Using Verizon DSL. Had Adelphia cable modem before but, just as we were moving across town, Comcast bought Adelphia. I’d already heard from friends that Comcast reeked so I decided to try DSL instead. Thee Megs down, 720K up every time. Much more reliable than the cable setup under Adelphia. To be honest, just about any high speed connection is faster than 90% of servers’ ability to push down data so it’s reliability that decides me.
Tsulagi - January 28, 2008 | 4:35 pm · Link
Yeah, does sound like a DNS problem. One alternate big nameserver I use is 4.2.2.2 Easy to remember.
I’d tell you where to put it, but if I remember correctly you’re using that sucky Apple stuff.
myiq2xu - January 28, 2008 | 4:37 pm · Link
Man, the geek in here is so thick you could cut it with a spork
Caidence (fmr. Chris) - January 28, 2008 | 5:39 pm · Link
The sad fact is: the spork would make the geek bleed, cry out in pain.
Pansy.
Helena Montana - January 28, 2008 | 7:40 pm · Link
Not sure if it’s Comcastrophe or not, but my MSN e-mail server says it’s down so I can’t access hotmail and I haven’t been able to access Crooks & Liars all day. I thought the Crooks & Liars problem was that Comcast decided C&L was bad for me. But—no problem visiting Balloon Juice, so that can’t be it!
MrSnrub - January 28, 2008 | 8:00 pm · Link
Thanks for the tip on OpenDNS. Nice and fast. Comcast DNS can KMBA.
John Amato - January 28, 2008 | 8:11 pm · Link
My site has been up and down since the weekend…it’s a nightmare…
4tehlulz - January 28, 2008 | 8:21 pm · Link
Thirding OpenDNS—it’s a good service. I’m lucky in that I can get RCN for cable internet instead of Comcrap. Shitty Customer Service, but once it’s running, no mystery throttling and it generally stays up.
/shill
Jake - January 28, 2008 | 8:37 pm · Link
I’m so going to hell for laughing at this.
Evilbeard - January 28, 2008 | 8:45 pm · Link
As soon as that’s available to me I will probably try it but until then I am happy with my Comcast service. I do get intermittent outages but I think the other services have these as well. What keeps me from trying DSl right now is the great customer service here. I know I know you’re probably laughing but I’ve never had better utility service of any kind in my life than Comcast here in Sacramento.
We’ve had construction next door for the past year that has twice cut our cable line and both times they had technicians here the same day. So yeah, I am modestly content with my current internet provider.
aschupanitz - January 29, 2008 | 9:43 am · Link
Hello, Comcast customer service; how can I help you?