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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+152And so the Net Neutrality Wars has begun
- treed, on 10/12/2007, -9/+64Psst. The word is "*****". If people don't want to see the whole word, digg has censorship filters.
- jdibiase, on 10/12/2007, -2/+55I'm in eastern Massachusetts and have not been able to connect to gmail or my personalized Google home page all morning. I've tried using 3 different computers using 2 different versions of Firefox and IE 6.0.
- randomvictim, on 10/12/2007, -5/+53And they said net neutrality wasn't important.
- hansamurai, on 10/12/2007, -5/+46Your assistance to the cause is incredible.
- edzieba, on 10/12/2007, -1/+42I think the point was that without net neutrality, this might become the norm rather than the exception.
- negativefx, on 10/12/2007, -6/+37Baltimore is just fine.
BTW, ***** Comcast. Their service is garbage and I can't wait to get back to Charter. - NSMike, on 10/12/2007, -4/+35Welcome to Tiered Internet, folks.
- dugiehowsa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+30It seems to be a problem with the Google cookies. Delete the cookies and you should be fine. Temporarily at least.
- aplardi, on 10/12/2007, -4/+31I am in South Jersey and I have been online for the past 3 hours for work and had no problem with any google websites.
- MarkStrube, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26Use a proxy server to access your favorite sites until Comcast gets their ***** together. Here's a good place to start:
http://www.proxy4free.com/page1.html - invader, on 10/12/2007, -6/+26any solid evidence that the speculation made by the article is true? no, not really.
i'm pro net neutrality, but i'm anti sensationalism and anti unintelligent speculation - teamparadox, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Same here, Eastern MA. Cant connect to anything google or a great number of other sites I always visit as well. Also some sites are loading incredibly slow or timing out.
This article says you can visit google in IE but I cant. - ZaNkY, on 10/12/2007, -7/+25Begun, the Net Neutrality Wars Have...
- catchneyez, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21"BTW, ***** Comcast. Their service is garbage and I can't wait to get back to Charter."
Ha! I guess it must be different where you're at. I have Charter here at school in middle Tennessee. It costs $46.99 a month for 3Mb down, 256Kb up. My service drops at least once a week.
I had Comcast just 70 miles away from here in a city just south of Nashville, TN. I got an 8Mb down, 768Kb up connection for $44.99, which actually showed around 10Mb down every time I ran broadband speed tests. Had 1 problem in over a year with that service.
So I say ***** Charter, I can't wait to get back to Comcast.
Oh, and I've been able to connect to google and Gmail all day. I really hope this isn't Comcast's fault, I don't want to start hating them too. - raano, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Arrggg!!
OUR TUBES ARE CLOGGED!! - Artifez, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15I have been able to access it all morning. No problems here.
- dugiehowsa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14The problem is not with IP connectivity, as an ethereal (wireshark) trace shows that the TCP session gets correctly setup. The problem lies with the HTTP GET not being responded to. For come reason, deleting the google cookies seems to temporarily resolve the issue, but eventually the problem returns.
My thoughts is that this may have something to do with a content provider (a company like akamai) providing some type of bad cookie. This would explain why the issue is localized to the North East US. - dtfinch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14It's standard procedure for support reps to offend customers by blaming any deviation from the normal configuration for all problems, no matter how improbable it may be, and deny every interruption to their service, planned and unplanned.
- mancat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15No problems in Spokane? That's really hard to believe!
Oh, you mean your cable? Oh, okay. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Good speed? Comcast offers some of the lowest broadband speeds at some of the highest prices.
In some areas of the United States, you can get 15 Mbit for $5 to $10 LESS than Comcast's measly 3 Mbit. Some cable providers even offer 30 Mbit. And this is in America. If you were to look to other countries, you could get speeds that are 3 or 4 times faster (or even more), all at equivalent prices.
Comcast is ripping you off and you don't even know it. - bludgeon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11For me comcast is currently blocking all emails from revision3 and digg. When i phoned tech support they said it was digg/rev3's problem which is not true because with my gmail account i can receive emails from both websites within 10-15 seconds of signign up or requesting my password. Comcast's seems to have them blacklisted or something.
Chicago Area
Yes my spam filters are turned off - jhaven, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Baltimore isn't completely fine.
I have been able to connect to gmail occasionally (half the time are time-outs), and when I do manage to connect, I get a message stating that "Your internet connection is experiencing problems or your network administrator has blocked Gmail chat"... - Poco, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Oh no, the sky is falling, the sky is falling!
- dduardo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Did you try to access google by using their IP address?
Here are a few Google IP addresses:
http://72.14.207.99
http://64.233.187.99
http://64.233.161.83
Perhaps it's a DNS problem on comcast's end. - sedwards, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I noticed an inability to access my gmail this morning at 8:00... I was using gmail to keep in touch with clients and this is really turning into a disaster. I wish Comcast would warn their customers before destroying their business. If this is intentional, I will definitely seek damages.
- catholicismwow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I pity da foo' who can't access Google through their ISP!
- diggeddugg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9tracert www.google.com
Tracing route to www.l.google.com [64.233.161.99]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 6 ms 5 ms 5 ms c-3-0-ubr02.maynard.ma.boston.comcast.net [73.17.1.180.1]
2 6 ms 7 ms 5 ms ge-1-38-ur01.maynard.ma.boston.comcast.net [68.8
7.156.137]
3 8 ms 7 ms 7 ms te-8-1-ur01.framingham.ma.boston.comcast.net [68
.87.144.125]
4 8 ms 7 ms 7 ms 10g-9-1-ur01.westroxbury.ma.boston.comcast.net [
68.87.144.121]
5 8 ms 10 ms 7 ms 10g-7-1-ar02.needham.ma.boston.comcast.net [68.8
7.145.53]
6 7 ms 11 ms 8 ms 12.125.33.33
7 14 ms 13 ms 13 ms gbr1-p60.cb1ma.ip.att.net [12.123.40.138]
8 15 ms 19 ms 16 ms tbr1-p013402.cb1ma.ip.att.net [12.122.5.53]
9 14 ms 14 ms 15 ms tbr2-cl16.n54ny.ip.att.net [12.122.10.22]
10 14 ms 14 ms 14 ms 12.122.82.157
11 14 ms 14 ms 15 ms 12.118.94.26
12 15 ms 14 ms 14 ms so-5-0-0.cr2.lga1.us.above.net [64.125.27.138]
13 21 ms 17 ms 19 ms so-1-0-0.mpr2.iad1.us.above.net [64.125.28.65]
14 19 ms 20 ms 19 ms so-3-0-0.mpr2.iad5.us.above.net [64.125.28.14]
15 22 ms 21 ms 22 ms 216.200.151.110.available.above.net [216.200.151
.110]
16 21 ms 19 ms 19 ms 216.239.47.130
17 19 ms 19 ms 19 ms 216.239.46.19
18 26 ms 21 ms 21 ms 72.14.236.202
19 23 ms 24 ms 24 ms 216.239.49.214
20 20 ms 19 ms 20 ms 64.233.161.99
Trace complete. - jdibiase, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Comcast says it's not them and other ISPs are having the issue too.
- diggeddugg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7It's not DNS - I'm on openDNS - still does not work
- jayvdc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Im in CT, no google, youtube, embedded video, and the slowest download speeds ever! thanks digg!! you keep me busy!
- jhuebel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8This has got to be the longest, most lame "Me Too!" digg post ever. This wasn't a net neutrality offense. It was a technical issue somewhere between Comcast and the rest of the net. Get a grip, people. Stuff breaks.
- deadbaby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Has anyone effected tried a traceroute? It would give us a very good idea what's going on.
- sdubois92, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6im in massachusetts, using ubuntu linux with firefox and os x with camino. i can get on the google homepage but i cant search.
- varmit, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9I'm in NJ, AT&T T1 I believe, and I cannot get gmail to come up but google.com came up. Maybe it is a gmail problem.
- mdmadph, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6damn gamblers! Stevens said this would happen!
- mcaaronice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6this worked!
- zed260, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6this is the future if net netrulaity is not preserved
- wired4u, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Has anyone done a trace route to google? This could just be an Internet routing issue, which is pretty common. If a major web site is having issues everyone thinks the sky is falling. So any Comcast customer that cant get to google please run a trace route so we can see were the issue is occurring.
- SuperOmegaSlack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5It's not a broswer issue, it's an issue with comcast! It may just be a routing loop or an issue with their equipment, rather than them blocking traffic to google. Since some can get to google on comcast, it's most likely a router along the path that some people take is goofed up.
- geofffox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I am in Connecticut and a Comcast sub.
I could ping Google (and Google related sites), but not connect. IE worked, Firefox would not. I cleared my Firefox cookies (clearing the cache had no effect) and then was able to connect.
It is strange that this would affect Firefox and not IE and that my cookies are entering into this. What exactly is Comcast looking at when I send packets? Maybe that should be my biggest concern. - H_o_p_s, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Alrighty, after some poking around:
1) I get no google, gmail, imdb, and some other websites.
2) Using their IP addresses I can access them
3) Removing all the cookies makes me able to access these websites, but soon again they don't connect anymore.
So for some reason a cookie is the problem... - ArmchairAthlete, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@betterth
Funny, I live in Atlanta too and used to have Comcast. And my experience was about as far from yours as it could get. What a nightmare.
The connection died daily around noon for a couple hours. I had to transfer the account from my roommate to me. We explained exactly what to do and they still screwed it up. No access for 3 days and tons of time wasted with their incompetent reps. They also kept charging me for a modem I was no longer renting.
Finally the connection dies in the evening one day and they tell me they need to send someone out to take a look. Just one problem, they can't get anyone out for a week. Goodbye comcast since Bellsouth made it here in two days to hook up DSL. I depend on the connection for work/school so...
Bellsouth DSL has been slower than Comcast (when it actually worked) but stable. - diggeddugg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5YouTube is down as well for me - maybe google has bought YouTube....
It is strange as DNS resolves correctly, tracert is right, IP address in browser works, domain name fails.... - rstarr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I live in Boston and all morning I had not connection to Gmail, Google, YouTube, and Writely. Which all in all might not be that bad for me since it's a decent excuse to not have my English paper in today.
- rudinz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I am in Central NJ and have been having this problem from 8am EST...
Tried Firefox and Safari... - Four20, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4of course not, they just see it doesn't work, and complain. im sure it's just a fiber cut somewhere along the vast pipes of google, or even comcast.
- tdogg241, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'm in Bellevue right now and I just lost gmail. Google still works fine though.
- sillywampa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3had the same issues in white plains, ny with google and youtube, but comcast is not our ISP. I could connect to servers in Texas and in NJ that could connect to google.
- indraneel24, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4i mean, where i live, its the best.
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