Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Slow Internet today

UPDATE:
Internet is now back to full speed. If the Internet seems slow now, let us know, because it's not the bandwidth anymore.

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If the Internet seems slow to you today, it's because it is. Our main Internet connection went down yesterday (Tuesday, 1/4, around 1:15 PM). Fortunately, we installed a backup connection over Thanksgiving and configured it for automatic failover in case something like this should happen.

The primary and secondary connections work together to provide a combined total of 75 Mbps of bandwidth. When one goes down, the total bandwidth is reduced. The result is that right now we are running on 45 Mbps of bandwidth instead of 75, so your Internet access might seem slow.

(What's crazy is that five years ago, we had only 3 Mbps of bandwidth.)

We've been working with Charter to get the main connection working again. Thanks for your patience.

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