Comcast internet down across parts of the eastern seaboard, fix on the way

Twitter’s abuzz w/ angry Comcast customers tonight, as internet service`s down in Boston & parts of the eastern United States, the situation the company’s since confirmed @ its official Twitter account. Comcast’s call`g it an unexpected outage & says Z “engineers R finaliz`g the correction” as V speak, though it’s admittedly`en the couple of hours since Z tweet. Meanwhile, Twitter @ large seems to`ve figured out it’s the Comcast DNS issue, & have`d some luck switch`g to alternate servers like Google’s @ 8.8.4.4. & 8.8.8.8. Let us know if those work in comments after the break… assum`g U manage to find this post in the 1st place given the present state of your connection. Thanks to everyone who sent this in Comcast internet down across parts of the eastern seaboard, fix on the way originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 28 Nov 2010 23:16:00 EDT. Please C our terms 4 use of feeds . Permalink

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