timely Internet news

[Jamie McCarthy]

Katherine Kendall wrote:

> sort of like an Internet weather report.

There are such sites.  One is the Internet Weather Report...

   http://www.internetweather.com/

...but for the most part they don't tell you anything useful.  Most
serious network problems like the one you describe are localized:
the ISP you connect through, or their link to a backbone, is down.
A backhoe dug up a cable somewhere, or a router got misconfigured,
and it'll be fixed in an hour, or six hours, or twelve hours.

Sites that provide a "weather report" of the entire net really just
report the same thing day after day:  partly cloudy, chance of snow,
don't leave home without your galoshes :-)

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