Internet Outages
Internet Outages Many of you may have been affected by a recent Internet outage if you are an AT&T customer. I certainly was. This recent outage disrupted overall communications provided by this extremely popular and widely utilized Internet Service Provider (ISP). Impacting businesses by forcing cash only purchases or temporarily putting their business on hold. On a personal level, customers were left with no ability to carry on with day to day routines over a period of several hours. Technicians like myself basically checked everything down to the lowest level of communications to rule out the possibility of any local issue. Some folks even visited local establishments with an alternate ISP to gain Internet access. If you were able to establish a connection from another provider, you could research the issue further. This brings me to a couple of tools available that you may find useful during an Internet outage: Down Detector is a very popular and an ad...