Anybody else having trouble with Verizon Natl Broadband?

... Access speed seems to range from superlative to less than a land line, but that is not the main problem. Even when the network speed is high, website pages aren't loading reliably. Sometimes they load and sometimes they don't, just a few seconds later.

A real extreme case was the C&L page which only loaded the first blog post (and no other entries or graphics or sidebars). The VZAccess Mgr indicated the network speed was quite high but nothing else was loading. The C&L post that did load included a YouTube music video so I decided to try to run it. Guess what -- it loaded and played with no problems, no delays, but the rest of the page did not load further, neither graphics nor text.

This same poor Verizon Broadband performance has occured on two computers. I've called them twice. They try to be helpful and say there is no network problems and take notes but do not know what is causing the problems. I know that Verizon reserves the right to cut off broadband service for specific reasons, but that is not, apparently, what has happened.

I'm getting access to several sites most most of the time, but C&L, Hullabaloo, firedoglake.com, Glenn Greenwald, TPM -- I've had trouble with them all. Netflix didn't work very well. My e-mail webpage has been reliable so far, which is convenient.

This performance (or lack thereof) started this morning and has persisted each time I've logged on during the day.

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P.S. Problem had disappeared when I logged on Monday morning ...

The Tucson Citizen cogitates about how the Internet intersects with the 'news' ...

Cogitations interesting, title poor: Why a Free Press?: Should journalists heed the cyber-mob? by Mark Evans

Community patent review ...

Peer to Patent: A web site that has been set up for you to help "the USPTO find the information relevant to assessing the claims of pending patent applications."

Here's the article from which I found Peer to Patent: Opening Up the Patent Process --The United States Patent and Trademark Office is testing a new website designed to harness the collaborative power of the Internet to vet patents. by Andrew Schrock

Can't quite pin us down?

Apparently, try as they might, the internet tracking companies, don't yet have a complete handle on us.

Tracking Internet usage proving to be a tangled web

Hallelujah!