Level3 suffering major outages; effects are felt worldwide

    Level3 suffering major outages; effects are felt worldwide


    Last Updated: 28 Aug 2015 at 05:48
    You may wonder what the heck Level3 is, but it is a major backbone of the Internet based in the US. Many services and even ISPs rely on it to ensure major parts of the world are connected; in fact everything from Yahoo Mail, PSN, Xbox Live, Outlook, BT, Twitch, HBO Go, Craigslist, and other networks and services rely on it.

    Level 3 Communications, based in Broomfield, Colorado, provides Internet service via their Tier 1 network to Internet carriers in Europe, Asia, and North America. This means we will currently see problems with a range of services in the UK, Germany, and United States that all use the Level3 network.

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    Their website is taking a hit right now as services scramble to find out how widespread the outages are, but as we can see from the Down Detector site, and picture above (taken at 14:00 PDT/23:00 CET) the red blotches tell a bleak story...



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    Brink's Avatar Posted By: Brink
    27 Aug 2015



  1. Posts : 20,583
    Win-7-Pro64bit 7-H-Prem-64bit
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    lol the first sentence (8 words) is exactly what I was thinking when I read the title
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  2. Posts : 25,847
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    Somebody mentioned a short while back that downloads of Windows 10 just might overload the net.

    When you give free candy away the line to the candy store gets very long and wide. Put on top of that all the people trying to download Windows 7 so they can come back from Windows 10.

    I'm doing a Clean Install of Windows 7 at this time and I have been doing over 200 updates for 4 hours and 18 min. I'm a little over half way.

    **As a side note:
    Thank you Brink for your tutorial for Clean Install.

    I still use it for a guideline when doing installs.
    A little brain refresher.
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  3. Posts : 20,583
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       #3

    Yep I still refer to it as well I always run into brain freeze :)
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  4. Posts : 4,161
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    Update: https://twitter.com/Level3Now?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

    Apparently, they use the same update method as MS--Smoke test it.
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