Re: Horrible world trade center crash, traffic effect

[Mike Brooks]

We are also seeing a decrease in traffic volume.


Randy Neals wrote:
> 
> Traffic patterns on our network are starting to look different than normal.
> I expected more traffic but it seems that traffic volumes are decreasing
> slightly.
> 
> What are others seeing?
> 
> -Randy
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: deeann mikula [mailto:deeann@telerama.com]
> Sent: September 11, 2001 10:22 AM
> To: Charles Sprickman
> Cc: Avi Freedman; nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Horrible world trade center crash, traffic effect
> 
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Avi Freedman wrote:
> >
> > > FYI, 2 planes crashed into the world trade center.
> > > Sounds like on purpose.
> >
> > > Not to be ghoulish, but the traffic impact is looking to be fairly large
> > > on the 'net (and on the PSTN in the NYC area).
> 
> few people (in pgh, PA) that i have been talking to on irc have
> reported ./'d news sites everywhere.  (cnn.com, yahoo.com, msnbc.com,
> etc.)  my office has been relegated am radio, which is pretty pathetic
> for an ISP.
> 
> pretty poor performance for a network orginally designed to faciliate
> communication in just such circumstances.  i hope that military and
> federal communication is faring better than the commercial sites.
> 
> > All VHF TV stations except for CBS 2 are off the air, many radio stations
> > are off the air, and it's largely impossible to get a call in.  All
> 
> i assume that in nyc or dc only.  we are listening to AM radio just
> fine...
> 
> deeann m.m. mikula
> 
> director of operations
> telerama public access internet
> http://www.telerama.com
> 1.877.688.3200

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Mike Brooks
Systems Administrator
Taconic Technology Corp.
518-392-1280
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