Not so Comcastic Internet service today

Jon Petitt ties together all those reports today of people being unable to access anything Google-related (from BlogSpot to GMail to that little search engine thingee). He quotes one person recounting a Comcast tech telling him the only fix is to switch browsers from Firefox to Internet Explorer. Bzzt, wrong answer, Mr. Comcast customer-service rep.

Tom reports a partial fix, at least for Firefox users.

Unquietsoul5 reports a Comcast rep said the problem was a flaky Comcast DNS server.

Steve Safran at Lost Remote: I contacted Comcast and they were less than helpful shall we say.

An eWeek blogger wonders if Comcast did it on purpose (but one reader wonders Tin Hat time?).

Abby: The outage today makes me realize how Google-centric my life has become.

Whole litany of complaints from LiveJournal users (plus this great question: So, is the MBTA down too?).

Boston Craigslist user reports that when he called to complain he couldn't get to a Google site, the rep told him to switch e-mail programs (More Craigslist comments).

More here.

Obnoxious Ed. note: We use neither Comcast nor Verizon - we've never had any reason to switch from Speakeasy. They cost a bit more, but they don't tend to have outages that keep you from getting to even obscure sites like Google.