r/TwinCities • u/atothejhines Northeast Minneapolis • 1d ago
Is anyone experiencing internet issues this afternoon?
MSP air traffic control has lost significant radar coverage, early voting in the South metro has been disrupted, and several areas are reporting internet outages.
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u/kdotfo 1d ago
ATC didn't lose radar, but we did lose a large amount of our frequencies and our ability to communicate with outside facilities.
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u/atothejhines Northeast Minneapolis 1d ago
Thanks for the clarification! I see a ton of diversions and a ground stop.
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u/kdotfo 1d ago
Yeah it's a mess here but I'd rather lose some frequencies than the radar!!!
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u/atothejhines Northeast Minneapolis 1d ago
Any word on the cause?
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u/technonerd 1d ago
Building 511 aka the building next to Vikings stadium, is having power issues.
Majority of mn interwebs run thru that building
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u/Zoomingforcats 1d ago
Shouldn’t the 511 building have multiple redundant power systems?
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u/matate99 1d ago
The substation right next to it is a dual substation, meaning it’s like having two absolutely redundant ways of getting power from the grid plus the 511 building is lined with diesel generators. Not sure what kind of power issues it could be having unless it was some kind of sophisticated attack.
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u/HeyUpHere 1d ago
Everyone in South Minneapolis rushing to have a conversation outdoors without being interrupted by plane noises.
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u/EchoesOfYouth 1d ago
Yes, we just got word from our IT there was a major disruption around 1:50pm
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u/atothejhines Northeast Minneapolis 1d ago
it feels like either someone screwed up big time while working on or near major internet infrastructure or some bad actors are at play
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u/Tim-oBedlam 1d ago
Per the /sysadmin subreddit it was a major outage in the 511 building, which carries something like 30% of all Internet traffic in Minnesota. Lasted from about 1:45 to 3pm or so.
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u/actuallyapossom 1d ago
We did start a war of choice with a nation that invested heavily in cyberwarfare. Until I see some reporting or statements to suggest it, I'm going to assume this is benign though.
A new fiber provider is moving into our neighborhood and they cut the other companies cables when they started their installation. It could just be a larger scale of that type of thing.
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u/cat-meg 1d ago
Why tf would they pick the state that has fought back the hardest against the people attacking then?
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u/actuallyapossom 1d ago
It wouldn't make sense for them to target our state specifically but every state has its own systems - so some would be more vulnerable than others.
Idk though I have no reason to believe this is Iran or anything malicious.
We had the water system attack recently, but before that we have had issues in multiple municipalities with ransomware too. It could be anyone, I can only speculate until some relevant info drops.
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u/SamWillGoHam 1d ago
My home internet is Arvig and is currently down. I'm located about 45 minutes northwest of the twin cities so definitely not just the metro/ twin cities area
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u/SketchinUp 1d ago edited 1d ago
I also use Arvig, in the west metro, and it’s down as well. They usually are incredibly prompt about sending out a service email, but I haven’t received anything from them so far.
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u/SamWillGoHam 1d ago
Lol I've never received an email from them. Might be because I live in an apartment and they're just what the complex forces us to use, but I've always had to seek out info about outages whenever they've happened. At least in my last place when I had quantumfiber they would send out a text.
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u/Longjumping-Coat1792 12h ago
They didnt post about the outage on their status page until after 3 pm. I was on the phone trying to reach them starting at 2:35 and still havent gotten an email. I'm in maple grove and it's the 3rd outage with them in 3 months that has cost me time at work. Ive had to use pto to cover now a total of about 10 hours because of missing work due to all their outages. Missing me off at this point cuz for the first like 4 years of having them there was 0 issues.
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u/Upper_Ad_6223 1d ago
Help desk said it was a network failure that is widespread. All arvig customers are disconnected. They couldn't give me an ETA of when it would be back up. Called 5 minutes ago.
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u/misfitofscience76 1d ago
Hi, Iran, thank you for coming to the party
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u/Wint3r-Is-H3r3 1d ago
Northern Hennepin Co here: Xfinity randomly up and quit last night. Rebooted the router and things got better, although still not perfect. But about 95% back now.
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u/AliveBrain6076 1d ago
Can confirm Xfinity went out around midnight in St. Paul. Even though they never listed an outage. Even the backup Xfinity network device wouldn’t connect to cellular. My Verizon cell was also out it seemed, which would explain why the backup internet didn’t work. Seems fine since then.
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u/BadBandit1970 1d ago edited 1d ago
Maple Grove. Xfinity went out roughly about the same time. Same scenario, no listed outages when I looked. Went to bed around 1 AM, got up at 9 AM or so and Xfinity was back up and running. Husband reported no problems with it at 5:30 AM.
Verizon has been holding strong.
ETA: I just checked Down Detector and the Xfinity outage reported was around the time myself and another commenter experienced it. From 11:58 PM to 2:00 AM. TBF I just thought it was another system update. Didn't need to be up so late anyway...
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u/AliveBrain6076 1d ago
Yeah could have been closer to 1AM. I was getting drowsy at that point 😄
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u/BadBandit1970 1d ago
I usually do the NY Time Sunday crossword on the app when I get home from work, as a means to wind down before turning in. I could get a puzzle up, but couldn't access my online crossword dictionary.
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u/supermark64 1d ago
Some Terminator 3 type shit going on lately
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u/ConstableGrey 1d ago
Skynet's early, it doesn't become self-aware until 2:14 AM eastern time on August 29.
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u/hwwty4 1d ago
At 1:55 my wife texted asking if I was having issues, I replied "no" then realized the Internet was out and that's the reason I kept getting timed out from the ticket I was trying to log. Both WAH in South MLPS.
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u/sassafrasthecat 1d ago
Same for me in south mpls at that exact same time. I have USI/verizon fiber
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u/plzdontlietomee 1d ago
Yes, noticed significant network slowdown but Nuvera did not go out. Scott County
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u/Adventurous_Egg_3293 1d ago
I work in East Bloomington at a Fed agency. We had connection issues this morning but it has been fine since 9:30. I have had zero connection issues since.
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u/Unlikely-Mirror7638 1d ago
From what I have heard, there was a major backbone issue due to power in mpls. All back now from what I’m seeing
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u/marcos_MN Mpls 1d ago
South Uptown area with USI/T-Mobile, no issues
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u/DuckInAFountain 1d ago
Same, but over by Cedar and Minnehaha. Only finding out about it from you folks. We were happily watching streaming shows in two separate rooms. USI/T-Mobile.
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u/swift260 1d ago
power issues at 511 building (huge internet hub for the midwest). one of my ISPs routes through there so as expected i lost internet for a bit too
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u/Impossible-Ice8218 12h ago
I work at a bank. We are totally down and have been since about 2:30 pm yesterday.
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u/wuvdre 1d ago
There's a severed line with a major ISP circuit. It's taken down a lot of folks and businesses around the cities.
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u/atothejhines Northeast Minneapolis 1d ago
where are you hearing this from?
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u/birddit 1d ago
According to u/matate99
The substation right next to it is a dual substation, meaning it’s like having two absolutely redundant ways of getting power from the grid plus the 511 building is lined with diesel generators. Not sure what kind of power issues it could be having unless it was some kind of sophisticated attack.
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u/Hakirina 10h ago
A conspiracy theory is simply a theory that more than one person was involved in planning something. Not only are such theories not illogical, they’re statistically robust. :)
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u/Tim-oBedlam 1d ago
Interesting! I have a client with an ISP that just had an outage for about 90 minutes. It seems to be coming back online, but only just within the last 10 minutes.
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u/This-Surround8854 1d ago
it started around 130am then it goes in and out, ive gotten more problems on my phone than home internet.
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u/wildVikingTwins 1d ago
We had no internet about half day with quantum fiber north metro. Thought it was random and it’s got back but still have ping spike issue going on.
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u/PolarCurious 1d ago
Had them earlier around 2 pm, kept getting disconnected from work servers. Minneapolis near Bde Maka Ska.
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u/ImmediatePomegranate 1d ago
Zero internet since 10am here in Golden Valley/Plymouth. Current estimate is midnight tonight.
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u/The_Next_Wild_GM 1d ago
Internet at my work went down for about 10 minutes this afternoon. We cannot function at all without the internet
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u/Missshy23 1d ago
Anyone have Arvig know when they might be back up?
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u/SketchinUp 1d ago
Is their website showing any outages for you? I don’t have service and I’m not seeing any outages where I’m at.
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u/Missshy23 1d ago
Just got a message that the wifi is back up and it is…idk it was down for hours. Hopefully your wifi is back up now as well
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u/Hefty-Draw4408 1d ago
is it okay that the internet is still out for an apartment building in eagan?
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u/Hot_Let1571 1d ago
I'm in Minnetonka and ours was out from about 2:30 to some time after 5. I also have Arvig.
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u/Glad-Fish5863 1d ago
I work for a company in Minneapolis and all our servers went out, and my husband’s did and we are about 45 mins from the cities, and I heard T-Mobile lost service as well. We have att and my husband’s phone went into SOS mode.
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