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It’s been up so long I thought it was my internet.

by sgammon 3y ago

TheHumanist 3y ago
haha same. turned off VPN, tried again, just to check. Reset router too. Couldn't be HN, must be me and mine
- thatwasunusual 3y ago
  Is Hacker News _the only_ site you visit? :)
  - FridgeSeal 3y ago
    No, but since Reddit gimped Apollo, it’s up there, higher than I like.
    - seanw444 3y ago
      Same here. HN + a few RSS feeds now. Reddit without Infinity is no Reddit for me.
- fHr 3y ago
  Same, before my daily standup I usually quickly hop on HN, was fully convinced my net was down.
  - 123sereusername 3y ago
    [dead]
binocarlos 3y ago
I use hacker news as my "is my Internet working" test - it's fast and always up (kudos) So yes, I also thought my Internet was broken :-)
- trustingtrust 3y ago
  I restarted my phone because I thought my network was down blindly believing HN can never be down. Then I opened another website and realised this is one of those times that the website was actually down.
  - nubinetwork 3y ago
    It was down for a while last week too...
  - zeven7 3y ago
    Same but even after seeing another site was working I still wondered if it was my Pi Hole / DNS cache acting up or something.
- scbrg 3y ago
  Back in the day (90:ies) a colleague at the ISP I was working at (small time dial up business) told me that the one site on the Internet you could count on always being up was playboy.com. Therefore, it was our standard "check if Internet is working" site. In the event that it was a DNS issue, it was also best to memorize its IP. For some reason, knowing the IP number of playboy.com by heart was not a skill I bragged about a lot :P These days it's 1.1. Easier both to remember and type than anything else.
- easton 3y ago
  https://perdu.com https://perdu.com is a good move too
- johnwalkr 3y ago
  I used to have a smartphone plan that throttled to 100kbps after I used my data. At that point, for the rest of the month I would usually live with it because HN and google maps still worked even when every other site wouldn't load.
- SamuelAdams 3y ago
  Personally I like https://dnscheck.tools https://dnscheck.tools, it checks a few other things as well like DNSSEC and IPV6 For a very simple site, https://captive.apple.com https://captive.apple.com works too
TeMPOraL 3y ago
Same here. It coincided with some MS Teams breakage at work, so I honestly thought the Internet is down - I've rebooted the work computer and asked my wife to check if the Internet is working for her before I realized it's just HN.
rmm 3y ago
Glad this wasn’t just me. I reset my router before I realised
passwordoops 3y ago
I assumed there was more OpenAI drama
lemper 3y ago
same, bro. same. always accessing hn from office. i thought it guys are sick and tired of my posts.
jerbear4328 3y ago
Yeah, my phone even said that it couldn't connect "because your iPhone is not connected to the internet", despite being connected just fine. I had to run a globalping to actually convince myself that it was even possible.

It’s been up so long I thought it was my internet.

TheHumanist 3y ago

haha same. turned off VPN, tried again, just to check. Reset router too. Couldn't be HN, must be me and mine

thatwasunusual 3y ago
Is Hacker News _the only_ site you visit? :)
- FridgeSeal 3y ago
  No, but since Reddit gimped Apollo, it’s up there, higher than I like.
  - seanw444 3y ago
    Same here. HN + a few RSS feeds now. Reddit without Infinity is no Reddit for me.
fHr 3y ago
Same, before my daily standup I usually quickly hop on HN, was fully convinced my net was down.
- 123sereusername 3y ago
  [dead]

binocarlos 3y ago

I use hacker news as my "is my Internet working" test - it's fast and always up (kudos) So yes, I also thought my Internet was broken :-)

trustingtrust 3y ago
I restarted my phone because I thought my network was down blindly believing HN can never be down. Then I opened another website and realised this is one of those times that the website was actually down.
- nubinetwork 3y ago
  It was down for a while last week too...
- zeven7 3y ago
  Same but even after seeing another site was working I still wondered if it was my Pi Hole / DNS cache acting up or something.
scbrg 3y ago
Back in the day (90:ies) a colleague at the ISP I was working at (small time dial up business) told me that the one site on the Internet you could count on always being up was playboy.com. Therefore, it was our standard "check if Internet is working" site. In the event that it was a DNS issue, it was also best to memorize its IP. For some reason, knowing the IP number of playboy.com by heart was not a skill I bragged about a lot :P These days it's 1.1. Easier both to remember and type than anything else.
easton 3y ago
https://perdu.com https://perdu.com is a good move too
johnwalkr 3y ago
I used to have a smartphone plan that throttled to 100kbps after I used my data. At that point, for the rest of the month I would usually live with it because HN and google maps still worked even when every other site wouldn't load.
SamuelAdams 3y ago
Personally I like https://dnscheck.tools https://dnscheck.tools, it checks a few other things as well like DNSSEC and IPV6 For a very simple site, https://captive.apple.com https://captive.apple.com works too

TeMPOraL 3y ago

Same here. It coincided with some MS Teams breakage at work, so I honestly thought the Internet is down - I've rebooted the work computer and asked my wife to check if the Internet is working for her before I realized it's just HN.

rmm 3y ago

Glad this wasn’t just me. I reset my router before I realised

passwordoops 3y ago

I assumed there was more OpenAI drama

lemper 3y ago

same, bro. same. always accessing hn from office. i thought it guys are sick and tired of my posts.

jerbear4328 3y ago

Yeah, my phone even said that it couldn't connect "because your iPhone is not connected to the internet", despite being connected just fine. I had to run a globalping to actually convince myself that it was even possible.