Verizon DSL woes?

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

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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Actually, I'm having one problem...

[nvidia99999.livejournal.com]

I cannot access some academic sites in Europe that used to be fine just a few days ago. I can access them from computers at work. I think it may have to do with domain name resolution, somehow. I'm using two DNS Verizon servers, and they seem to be up and working. But something is odd...