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And many people blame their internet provider as google outages are rare.
by 1cvmask 5y ago
And many people blame their internet provider as google outages are rare.
- vanderZwan 5y agoI don't think it's that so much as the fact that that half of the internet services that rely on Google along the line somewhere (but not visibly to the users) are down, at least for me. And yet the Google search page can be reached (again, speaking from my European perspective, sample size one). To make it even more confusing: these issues are limited to my WiFi. If I use my phone connection as a hotspot the problems disappear. So from the perspective of a regular person it is very reasonable to conclude that it is their internet provider that is down.
- kaba0 5y agoAnd I think no internet provider has such a good name where an outage on their part would be unheard of. Much more so than google.
- ratww 5y agoNow that I think of it, I might have blamed my provider or at least restarted my modem if Hacker News was ever down...
- rablackburn 5y agoIt’s the perfect connection test. 9 times out of 10 if you can’t connect to hn the problem is you, not them. Probably even 99/100
- paganel 5y agoI usually check the HN website to see if my internet is down, both on my mobile and on my work computer. I used to just type "test" in the browser address bar hoping for the related Google SERPs but checking for HN seems way faster nowadays.
- garaetjjte 5y agoHN is down pretty frequently, but I think it shows custom error page served from Cloudflare.
- veltas 5y agoPeople and software, when Facebook was done my mobile thought the internet was unavailable.