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Comcast down on east coast?

Not on comcast but I can say that my service through level3 is crappy right now. Way slower than usual. Traces show normal but bandwidth is crap.
 
My cousin called me an hour ago asking me what the phone # for Comcast was...I thought in my head What the heck but never asked him what happened or what was going on.

I did a search for Comcast in google.com and clicked on the "contact us" link on Comcast.com and noticed the phone # was 1-800-Comcast. I called him 2 minutes and told him "it's 1-800-Comcast". That was where our discussion ended.

No I know with this thread. Cousin lives in MD a few houses down. We've had FiOS for 2+ years, they've been too lazy to ditch Comcast for some reason.
 
Comcast's service isn't down, it's just their DNS servers are hosed.

Plug in some other DNS server (google's = 8.8.8.8 / 8.8.4.4) and everything should be fine.

 
QuantumPion said:
Comcast's service isn't down, it's just their DNS servers are hosed.

Plug in some other DNS server (google's = 8.8.8.8 / 8.8.4.4) and everything should be fine.

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I don't think DNS would cause my 360 to drop Netflix mid-stream from 'HD' to 1/4 bar quality, though.

Edit: Switched to the above DNS servers:
 
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there was something a few months ago when comcast went down and reset simultaneously across the nation. i don't know if everyone got affected, but a LOT of people from CA did because that's where most of my friends were. When I searched twitter, I found a lot of posts ranging from Chicago to DC with people complaining. But I couldn't confirm whether they were just normal bitching Comcast customers or whether it was all linked.
 
I've been using Google's 8.8.8.8 since I thought Comcast's DNS servers might've been causing slow webpage load times, so I never really noticed any problems over the last couple days. But I've heard some others complain about it.

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I was reminded of this after looking for app updates on my phone and noticing I couldn't connect. It's using standard DNS settings, so it must be trying to go through Comcast's stuff.
 
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