[dba-Tech] Anyone out there having bad internet problems today?

Seem to be a bit low for a couple but I can connect to all.

Charter just loves to troubleshoot client locations when it is their
internal problem :o(

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From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 11:15 AM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Anyone out there having bad internet problems today?

Try www.speedtest.net

When the map of the US opens try hitting several different places.  For me
(in NC) Lexington, KY is fine (normal ping, 10m bit down, 1 mbit up), OTOH
Atlanta is 100k down and 10k up.  I was getting reliably high speeds to
specific places such as Dallas Tx but reliably poor to chicago, NY etc.
Further if I open a dos box and PING google, Yahoo, MSNBC, Microsoft etc. I
get timeouts.  If I ping www.Extremetech.com I get normal ping times.  If I
ping 4.2.2.1 (a domain name resolving system) I get 14 ms pings.

I had Charter's "tech support" on the phone for an hour and they said
"uhhh... Yup... It's not wurkin" and are sending a tech to my house.
However my "neighbor" about a mile away has exactly the same problems.  

I just thought I'd ask a wider audience if anyone else in the US is seeing
these symptoms.

I have a tech coming to my house but they won't find anything here, of that
I am certain now.