[ale] Diagnostic help needed

Michael Trausch mike at trausch.us
Sun Jan 15 14:38:31 EST 2012


Late this past week Comcast suffered a catastrophic failure. Businesses
around the southeast went out entirely, and residential customers suffered
and are suffering because hardware was reallocated.

Services should reach normal again in a few days to a week, from what I am
told.

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On Jan 15, 2012 8:16 AM, "Mike Harrison" <cluon at geeklabs.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 14 Jan 2012, Drifter wrote:
> > speed. Does Comcast have some way to know when I access a speed test site
> > and goose the speed for a few seconds?
>
> There is an initial burst (turbo mode) on Comcast and many other ISP's
> for the first ??? kb/mb/gb. It is very noticible when doing command
> line FTP (with hash) or any other transfer with a real speed indicator.
> Many speed indicators are "softened"..
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