My home Internet connection has been dropping out every day for nearly a week. It always goes down between 10:30 and 11:00, and doesn't come back up until the evening, sometimes as late as 9:00. Since I host my websites from home, this means the sites go dark during this period as well. Frankly, you're lucky to be reading this at all.

Comcast is sending someone over to look at it today, so hopefully it will be resolved soon.

I've been doing line monitoring through broadbandreports.com - they'll check every ten minutes from three different cities to see if your connection is up, and keep track of it for you. They even provide some nice graphs, which geeks love.

Here's a graph of my connection for the past two days:

See the green bits? Those are the happy places. They're like vast tropical seas of lime Jello Mountain Dew margaritas that you can swim in to your heart's content.

You'll also have noticed the blue bits. Those are evil mountains of fear and despair amongst the tranquil green seas. They're blue because they're actually giant piles of dead Smurfs.

It's very disconcerting when you have no Internet access. It feels a lot like that scene in Apollo 13 when they go around the moon and are out of radio contact for a while. There's no telling what could happen during that time - you can't get email, you can't Google anything, there's no Wikipedia, no Facebook, no Flickr, no YouTube… seriously, it's like 1996, it's fucking medieval.

I hope they fix it soon.

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