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Re:Massive Comcast Outage Hits the US by txru on Friday June 29, 2018 @02:03PM (#17426287)
I know that other commenters are being flippant, but could this legitimately be them testing their throttling ability for specific types of traffic?
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Re:Massive Comcast Outage Hits the US by SpaethCo on Friday June 29, 2018 @02:07PM (#17426319)
No.
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Re:Massive Comcast Outage Hits the US by LinuxBender on Friday June 29, 2018 @02:18PM (#17426431)
Most likely not. Probably more like a backbone routing issue.

Their rate limiting tools like Sandvine do not causing these kinds of outages. They cause hassle for specific protocols and destinations. (rate limits, tcp resets, blackhole) but not massive outages.

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Re:Massive Comcast Outage Hits the US by Johnny555 on Friday June 29, 2018 @02:37PM (#17426587)
Attributing a nationwide outage to a "feature test" seems like it's more flippant.
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