Tim: >> Sounds like your ISP had problems. Do they have a status page? If >> so, have a look, see if it lists past outages, bookmark it for next >> time (also find its IP, now, so you can check if DNS doesn't work >> in the future). home user: > My ISP is comcast (or xfinity). > I found a status page. I did not see anything about past outages. Some don't update their pages, they never have faults (pah!). One of our ISPs tried that line with me, I argued that's why you don't have any technicians... Their user forums were full of complaints about service failures. > How do I find the IP for that status page? Let's say, for example, that your ISP has a status page at: http://www.example.com/status.html You could do dig www.example.com To find it's IP Then, you could try: http://93.184.216.34/status.html With a big ISP, that may work. Other ISPs may actually need a hostname to go with the HTTP request. In that case, you'd have to TEMPORARILY add the IP to your /etc/hosts file, and use the address with the hostname written in it (like my first example). e.g. 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4 ::1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6 98.184.216.34 www.example.com I say do that temporarily, because their IP may change. ISPs fiddle with things as much as some users do. And with a big ISP, you might connect to different machines when you disconnect and reconnect with a sufficient time delay. Regarding speed tests, you can google for broadband speed tests, there's plenty. But beware that some ISPs fudge things. They'll optimise their configuration so that speed tests go through with flying speeds, but the rest of their network is throttled. Mine does that. There are some speed test sites that aren't all fancy graphics with speedometer dials, you just download a huge file and time it. Those ones that fly under the radar a bit more don't get the tricked results by the ISPs. I look for overseas speed test sites to test my real speed, most of our Australian servers are reasonably fast, but our overseas links can be dire. And a lot of things I want to use, and occasionally have trouble with, are overseas. I'll probably be going through this pain, soon, changing ISPs. Mine has decided to change my plan without my approval, halving the speed, and jacking up the price by around a third. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.66.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed May 18 16:02:34 UTC 2022 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
