Re: AT&T NYC, Earthlink Atlanta, Sprint Tacoma

[Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>]

AT&T's network status site shows Chicago is isolated from the
rest of the network.  There are various traffic routing issues around
AT&T Chicago and with coast to coast routing (e.g. NYC to San Francisco)

http://ipnetwork.bgtmo.ip.att.net/current_network_performance.shtml

Earthlink is reporting Atlanta Georgia and surronding areas are isolated
on their network, and are having authentication failures.

http://help.mindspring.com/netstatus/

Sprint is reporting a hardware failure in Tacoma, Washington

http://www.sprint.net/maintview/index.cgi

I haven't heard of any backhoe or train activity.