ext_5001 ([identity profile] mamajoan.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] davis_square2010-03-29 07:18 am
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Verizon DSL woes?

Does anyone else here have Verizon DSL, and have you noticed it being unbelievably, painfully slow for the past several days? I'm talking, like, click a link and walk away for ten minutes slow. I can hardly get anything to load. Gmail keeps timing out. I've run some diagnostics from dslreports.com and gotten some very odd results.

I was thinking it was just me (I did call Verizon support and the guy tried to lay the blame on my antivirus software *roll eyes*) but I just heard from a friend in the area that she's having issues as well, so I thought I'd ask....
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VZ dsl outage

[identity profile] hashi808.livejournal.com 2010-03-31 08:52 am (UTC)(link)
From what the automated phone system is saying, there's an outage in Somerville, MA. I've corroborated this with the tech call center, who recommended retrying connection in about 8 or 9 hours. This was yesterday...

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[identity profile] mamajoan.livejournal.com 2010-03-31 11:17 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, the actual outage (as opposed to slowdown) started after I made this post. It was down for two days. It's back up again now...

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[identity profile] nvidia99999.livejournal.com 2010-03-31 01:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh wow, you were without DSL for two days?...

Re: VZ dsl outage

[identity profile] mamajoan.livejournal.com 2010-03-31 01:45 pm (UTC)(link)
It was not pretty. ;) On the second day I brought my work laptop home and made use of my neighbor's wireless (with permission - he gave me the password).
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