Internet Disruption Report: February 2020

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35 points·dbelson··9 comments

This morning my partner disconnected the modem when vacuuming and we both panicked that the internet was down. It's unfathomable, at this time, how critical this service has become for so many of us, who would perhaps live first without running water than lose connectivity.. Applause to the brave souls keeping our infrastructure up.

Agree. Any hiccup in latency sends me on a deep diagnosis dive where normally Id have waited it out. My wife's texts were not going through yesterday and that triggered another deep dive.

>disconnected the modem

Are you still using a modem? Or have you already switched to full-on "zombie apocalypse" mode and started to rely on previous century, proven tech.?

They are surely referring to their Cable Modem, DSL Modem, Cellular Modem, or Fiber Modem.

> They are surely referring to their Cable Modem, DSL Modem, Cellular Modem, or Fiber Modem.

This was tongue in cheek, but clearly lost on some.

But since we've now switched to full-on anal retentive mode: none of the above are modems since there's no modulation or demodulation happening in any of them.

What is Quadrature Amplitude Modulation then?

I support a couple hundred people working from home and have seen multiple cases where 'fiber' internet was getting <3mbps and 150+ms average, making VoIP and even RDP pretty awful to use.

CenturyLink seems to be the worst offender so far. They must really over provision.

> They must really over provision.

Oversubscribe :).

Ohhh, yup, thank you!

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