Network Outage

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This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on February 6, 2005). Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint). A fuller disclaimer is available.

One of the reasons I like Speakeasy — my ‘net connection just went down (and is still down as I type this, so nobody’s going to see this post until the issue is fixed). I called Speakeasy’s tech support, and got this automated message:

Thanks for calling Speakeasy. Some of our broadband customers in the greater Seattle area are currently reporting a network outage due to a vendor failure. We hope to have this resolved within 30 minutes.

(pause)

(big sigh)

If we’re lucky.

I can respect honesty like that.

Things seem to be up now, though (at least, DNS services are back, so websites are accessible again, though iChat can’t connect to the AIM network), so it was only about a ten minute outage. All in all, just a minor annoyance. These things happen.

iTunes “Bongo Tune” by Quarter from the album Essential Chillout (2000, 5:52).