For some currently unknown reason, Time Warner's entire Internet system just went down for most customers across the US.

If your Internet connection just cut out for about 30 seconds, you’re not alone. At about 9:30am ET, Time Warner cable announced on Twitter that it had experienced an Internet outage that has affected most of the service provider’s areas across the country.

As of July, Time Warner had more than 9.7 million residential high-speed Internet customers. That number doesn’t include the countless workers affected by the outage, only people who subscribe at home.

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Time Warner’s customer service Twitter account, @TWcablehelp, is working furiously to help customers affected by the outage, suggesting people restart their connection in an attempt to get back online.

It is not yet known why Time Warner’s Internet system went down, or how such an outage is technically possible. We will update this page with new information as soon as it’s available.

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  1. Jared Sirilo at 7:27pm 7th November 2011 This is a first world problem. A third world problem is starvation, dehydration, plagues. You can live without internet for 30secs to 10mins, Christ sakes.
  2. jesterking at 11:26am 7th November 2011 It was a Juniper update for their routers that went bad... Causing them to dump their core memory, forcing a recycle. It was world-wide.
  3. Scott Dixon at 6:39pm 7th November 2011 I was connected but no data. Went on for 10 minutes. Drove me crazy.
  4. Arnold Fan at 5:53pm 7th November 2011 my DVR is not working....is that the reason? Or just the machine getting old??
  5. Evan Bosch at 5:53pm 7th November 2011 i like how they posted on twitter that they internet was out
    1. jesterking at 11:27am 7th November 2011 yeah, talk about poor PR... IO don't use twitter, and I refuse to even type the URL into my browser.
  6. Patrick Verot at 5:33pm 7th November 2011 isnt america just wonderful
  7. John Condon at 5:21pm 7th November 2011 Typical AOL
  8. James Phillips at 5:16pm 7th November 2011 ZOMG for 30 seconds? That's almost ELEVENTY HOURS!!1!1!
  9. Andrew White at 5:09pm 7th November 2011 they found out the password was god.
  10. jesterking at 8:57am 7th November 2011 My connection has been cutting out for about 30 seconds off an on for the past 2-3 months...
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