IB LOGIN problems today

Earthlink took a nationwide dump this AM according to the rep I talked to earlier. My cable was down due to a local problem and I could not get my dial-up to connect. There were 3 of us here trying Earthlink, one got thru fine and the other two could not for two hours. The co said it was a nationwide problem and that all Elink customers were down...which of course was a lie.

Between Elink and Qwest, IB may be going through them somewhere and getting victimized. It certainly sucks to be down again. I sit here feeling like the guy in the brokerage commercial...the pathetic looking boxer with the concave chest whose corner abandons him after he gets his ass whipped. The ad goes "Who's in your corner?". Are we spoiled or what?
 
It's not an IB issue, there are currently major internet traffic problems, many Internet service providers are having connection problems.
For example,
AOL node pop1-dtc.atdn.net is down.
Chicago node 227.at-2-0-0.TR1.CHI2.ALTER.NET is down.
Michigan node irx03.foxberry.net is down.
New York node 180.ATM6-0.GW7.NYC9.ALTER.NET is down etc., etc.
 
12:14 EST

Due to an UUNET systems failure some customers may have experienced a service interuption, we have re-routed to an alternate ISP. All connectivity has been restored. Due to an INSTINET failure only directed orders will be processed for this exchange. INSTINET will be ineligible for BEST order routing. All IB systems are operating normally.
 
i'm in NJ - had total outage on my cable modem, and my MSN backup sucked also

lost both IB and Realtick

working now
 
Originally posted by greydeath101
Don't you think IB would have redundant ISP connections and not depend on only one. Even a small fry like me has 2 ISPs.

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I second this! If Amazon.com went down like this it would cost them millions in sales (probably slow their losses though)!. I have to believe there is way to get 99.9999% reliability through proper connections to multiple backbones etc. on the Internet. Do they need a good network consultant? These cheap rates don't make up for consistent losses due to outages. I've been a big supporter of IB, but this market is tough now, and connection problems make it tougher.
 
Originally posted by greydeath101
Don't you think IB would have redundent ISP connections and not depend on only one. Even a small fry like me has 2 ISPs.

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It would help but in this case when a huge ISP goes down everyone gets hit. Whether its total loss, or much more latency. Sometimes there is not always a roundabout way to get somewhere even on the internet. If there is any single connection that is not redundant along that path that goes down...

They say UUNET went down?

http://www.internettrafficreport.com/

Some network engineers had to actually work today. Whatdya know.
 
If UUNET has problems, it causes all sorts of havoc as they're one of the legs of the tripod that makes up the primary sonnet ring of the entire internet.

I'm sure that IB has backup connections, but they don't help much if the entire internet has a hiccup. I'm told that they recommend that their customers have a backup broker for just this type of situation.
 
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