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Originally Posted by Steve Ince
Level3?
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I'm going to get this all wrong, but I'll have a go anyway. Level3 is one of the backbone providers on the internet. If you trace your connection from your computer to its destination and back, you'll likely find it crossing networks owned by AT&T, Level3, and so on. If any of these huge backbone providers go down, large amounts of the internet cease to function properly. Namely domains fail to resolve and so on. To get a picture of the "health" of such backbone providers, stop by
Internet Health Report. The most recent major failure was a few days ago, which could possibly explain your issues with the forum. But if your problems have lasted for more than a brief six-eight hours on the day Level3 went down, I'd say it's something else. Like many people have posted before, I personally haven't noticed any issues.