Okay, who broke the internet?

[kiya]

Many of the Boston-area connections are in a state of mangle; Kevin tells me internettrafficreport.com shows major routers worldwide in a state of defectiveness. I'm connected at the moment through my dialup, which creeps along semifunctionally, and I'm doing that entirely to tell people that my net connection sucks pureed slugs through a straw and I'll be going away again.

Okay, I look at the internet traffic report and see that it has every continent at 01 and trending down. I think their servers are fucked. They say "we are experiencing some technical difficulties". It was more scattered and . . . provided less uniform information an hour ago.

Anyone got news about new viruses? Yuk.

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Hrm. Negative time?

[netbard.livejournal.com]

Unless the internet has discovered time travel, and avg response rates *are* -1, then I think its broken.

Then again, its also possible that somehow packets are being *added* to the system, explaining the packet loss of -1%.

:)

Re: Hrm. Negative time?

[kiya]

Yeah, well.

I wonder if attbi believes in packets yet. For a while I had a news connection, but that went down too after a bit. . . .

Ah well.

Hey, look, it has real numbers alluvvasudden!

[kiya]

Bitch, and I shalt receive!

Re: Hey, look, it has real numbers alluvvasudden!

[netbard.livejournal.com]

Woot! Numbers are good!

But I still don't see what's wrong with the square root of -1. :)

Re: Hey, look, it has real numbers alluvvasudden!

[kiya]

Do you think you can get me that piece of pizza you were going to FTP me faster over a complex protocol? ;}

Re: Hey, look, it has real numbers alluvvasudden!

[netbard.livejournal.com]

It might. But the slice of pizza from something like five years ago gained sentience and is now refusing to be part of any more dangerous experimentation. Oops. :)

Re: Hrm. Negative time?

[silmarian.livejournal.com]

Well... I know that AT&T's chicago routers all decided to have kittens today, with all that entails -- finding a dark place to hide for several hours.

I wouldn't be surprised if that was part of the problem.

[meranthi.livejournal.com]

My company's internet was down every day last week and most of them the week before that. This week has been pretty good so far *knock on wood* but one never knows. I think all of Boston's ISPs have decided that the Internet is evil and no one should be able to use it! *grumble*

[jenett]

Huh.

Moment to be glad I moved out of Boston, I guess. (Though at least Wellesley had air conditioning in the library. We theoretically have it, but in reality, we don't yet. It's 87 degrees in here.)

I hope the 'Net behaves again fast, though, and I will now be glad we did the NE party last night, and not tonight :)

'da heck wuz that?

[sinboy.livejournal.com]

Wierd net breakdown. Wonder what it was.

Re: 'da heck wuz that?

[elynne.livejournal.com]

Waaaaaaaacky. I'm glad I slept through all that. WTF?

Re: 'da heck wuz that?

[mikz.livejournal.com]

Yep—those graphs match my experiences exactly!

[submarine-bells.livejournal.com]

What a useful resource! I hadn't known about that before. Thanks for posting it.

[kiya]

Isn't it a terrific toy? I called Kevin up and asked him to have a look at it and he spent a while just playing with it. :)