Re: Horrible world trade center crash, traffic effect

[Mike Brooks <mikeb () taconic net>]

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

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