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Comcast outage

Comcast suffered a pretty big outage tonight, and this was the first time I have seen packets arrive out of order: $ ping www.google.com PING www.l.google.com (64.233.187.99): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 64.233.187.99: icmp_seq=3 ttl=237 time=59.443 ms 64 bytes from 64.233.187.99: icmp_seq=2 ttl=237 time=1778.317 ms 64 bytes from 64.233.187.99: icmp_seq=6 ttl=236 time=57.564 ms 64 [...]

Speakeasy Goodness

I submitted my DSL order to Speakeast last week, and have been receiving daily status e-mails similar to the following: BROADBAND ORDER IN PROCESS Broadband Installation Status: Stage 1: Order Received Your order has been received by Speakeasy. Stage 1: COMPLETED. Stage 2: Order Placed We have placed your order with the vendor. Stage 2: [...]

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