# Was your internet down yesterday? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 7, 2009, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-your-internet-down-yesterday/512929 "2009-10-07T13:31:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-your-internet-down-yesterday/512929/1 "2009-10-07T13:31:57Z")
Just curious, I couldn’t get an internet connection with my time warner roadrunner (in new york state) all day yesterday. I also heard there was some problem with google?.. My in-house tech went in the basement, unplugged the box with lights time warner set up down there, plugged it back in, and problem solved. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![FalconFinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@FalconFinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FalconFinder)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-your-internet-down-yesterday/512929/2 "2009-10-07T13:59:07Z")
I had no issues yesterday. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-your-internet-down-yesterday/512929/3 "2009-10-07T14:15:17Z")
Western Pennsylvania- I was fine. ---
**Author:** ![pan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e495f1/32.png) [@pan1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pan1)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-your-internet-down-yesterday/512929/4 "2009-10-07T14:22:07Z")
Time Warner, Nebraska, no problems. Cable modems and routers do often (a few times a year) need to be reset. ---
**Author:** ![silvermist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@silvermist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silvermist)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-your-internet-down-yesterday/512929/5 "2009-10-07T15:07:20Z")
I have to reset my modem sometimes. I did notice though that there is a barcode at the top of the Google screen today. What’s up with that? Do we have to pay to use Google now? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-your-internet-down-yesterday/512929/6 "2009-10-07T15:11:15Z")
Anniversary of the barcode. (hover over the barcode and it will tell you) ---
**Author:** ![bink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/439d5e/32.png) [@bink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bink)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-your-internet-down-yesterday/512929/7 "2009-10-07T15:57:33Z")
Verizon in the NYC area had an outage yesterday, for what it’s worth-- knocked out my PPP but left the DSL running. ---
**Author:** ![Fubaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-your-internet-down-yesterday/512929/8 "2009-10-07T16:01:14Z")
Are you worried that the whole internet was down until your basement internet box was unplugged and plugged back in? ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-your-internet-down-yesterday/512929/9 "2009-10-07T16:04:27Z")
My internet was acting a little strange on 10/5. but I was able to connect to most websites. I use Comcast.