COMCAST GOES DOWN ON THE MIDWEST

The past few weeks have not been kind to Comcast. First they get in a net neutrality PR battle with Level 3, then their servers go down in the Northeast, now Comcast is experiencing outages in the Midwest.

Like the outage in the Northeast last week, this problem has been traced to DNS issues. If you can read this try using public domain DNS servers, like Google's (8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4).

COMCAST HAVING ISSUES ACROSS EASTERN SEABOARD

Twitter's abuzz with angry Comcast customers tonight, as internet service is down in Boston and parts of the eastern United States, a situation the company's since confirmed at its official Twitter account. Comcast's calling it an unexpected outage and says that "engineers are finalizing the correction" as we speak, though it's admittedly been a couple of hours since that tweet. Meanwhile, Twitter at large seems to have figured out it's a Comcast DNS issue, and have had some luck switching to alternate servers like Google's at 8.8.4.4. and 8.8.8.8. Let us know if those work in comments after the break... assuming you manage to find this post in the first place given the present state of your connection. [Engadget]