It appears that a train derailment in western PA, which resulted in an explosion of inflammable liquid, was to blame for yesterday’s (and today’s) MASSIVE widespread downtime incident on Comcast, Adelphia, and Time-Warner digital network systems. Thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of cable Internet subscribers were without services for about 36 hours, beginning early in the evening on Friday. Sure sucks to be a Comcast Digital Voice subscriber right about now, or a Packet8 subscriber using Comcast, as is the case in my household.

Hey Comcast, ever heard of Border Gateway Protocol?