RESOLVED: Nationwide Comcast Outage

At 11:51 am CST (GMT -6), one of the major ISPs in the USA, Comcast, experienced a  peering issue that caused a portion of the Internet to become inaccessible to Comcast users.  Comcast has such a wide reach that both individuals and businesses were impacted.  To those affected, it seemed that some websites went off-the-air and simply did not respond.

Although the routing issues were resolved by 12:30 pm CST, we are still hearing from customers who are responding to delayed alerts.

The good news is that only a small portion of the Internet was impacted.  We did not see a significant dip on our own charts, and traffic from all other carriers was not affected.

Check http://downdetector.com/status/comcast-xfinity/map/ for comments from those impacted.

Tom P November 17, 2015