It froze here last night, first time this season. And this morning when I got online, I didn't get online. I had a devil of a time accessing anything. Messing around with ping plotter I eventually noted that I was having problems with the first hop.

I was getting about 10% packet loss between my cable modem and the first Comcast router. Which doesn't sound like much, but that's enough to make HTTP a big fail.

I waited a couple of hours, hoping that Comcast would notice and do something. Then I noticed some other anomalies, and decided that as a precaution it was time to reboot some things. So the cable modem, and Regulus (the server) and my LAN ethernet router all got rebooted, and afterwards everything was muuch better.

Earlier today, on 500 pings to the first hop router I'd get 45-55 misses. Just now I tried it again and the loss rate was 12 on 500 pings. It ought to be zero, but 12 is tolerable.

Anyway, if it was crippling my ability to get out, it would equally have been crippling your ability to get in. So if you were having trouble reaching my server this morning (including loading the top rotation picture) that was the reason why.

UPDATE: And now it's evening, and I pinged it again. Only one dropped packet out of 500 pings. It's going to freeze again tonight, and it'll be interesting to find out if the same thing happens.

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