OT: What is going on at Ameritech/SBC?!

[Stephen Griffin <stephen.griffin () rcn com>]

In the referenced message, Los, Ralph said:
> Greetings,
>
>       From the home-office DSL question pool:
>
>       What is going on with the Illinois & Ohio markets?!  I have internet
> access, sort of.  I can traceroute to some places, but more often
> than not, no.  I can't get to any web pages, or anything...select
> sites (www.usps.com for example) works....but it's rare to find
> another working site.
>
>       Can someone from SBC or an Engineer answer this?

My technical analysis has determined:
pizeo-electric interference

cf also,
http://www.nanog.org/endsystem.html

You probably will find it easier to get outage information specific
to you by calling SBC's customer care.