[outages] AT&T Apparently Blocking ooVoo -- WAS: Re: ooVoo WebSite Outage?

[Seth Mattinen]

On 11/15/12 1:16 PM, Matthew Petach wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:23 PM,  <jrk1231-outml at nym.hush.com> wrote:
> ...
>> I should add that if I proxy my web connection through a server I have at
>> ServerBeach, I have no issues accessing ooVoo.
>>
>> Thoughts / comments on how to get this fixed?
> 
> I have found in the past that the most effective
> way to deal with the random traffic blackholing
> that ATT does was to stop buying service from
> them.  Once I did that, those headaches vanished
> like the morning mists on a midsummers day.
> 
> Short of that, all I can say is that alcohol can
> sometimes help deaden the pain slightly.
> 

Are we talking about residential DSL/u-verse or "business" Metro
Ethernet (FastE, GigE, etc. over opt-e-man)?

~Seth