Widespread US Internet slowdown hits Southern Ontario

A widespread slow down of the Internet across North America heavily impacted Bell Canada, Rogers and other services for about two hours Monday. It began during the noon hour and cleared about 2:30. The slowdown, seen visually by the red zones on the map above, reportedly took down the Comcast Xfinity Service in the US although it is not known how the failure originated or spread to Canada. Bell reports many complaints in Toronto, Ottawa, North York, Burlington, Uxbridge, Bradford, Hamilton, Markham and Hamilton. More Level 3 configuration issue