The Design and Implementation of laffer1

I'm having problems surfing tonight.  There seems to be uber lag.  I rebooted stargazer which helped with local sites, but there is an apparent DNS resolving problem.  Best I can tell, Comcast or a backbone are having network related outages.  I can' t get a traceroute to go through for many sites to track down the problem.  I can't get to very much on the west coast and the east coast sties are slow.  A speedtest site showed me uploading at 12kbps and downloading at about the same.  Steam tried to update at 1kbps!  I shut down all network related software on my PC and my mac is completely shut off.  I'm still having severe problems that have persisted for an hour. There isn't much activity on the router and its showing all go in the admin.  The switch is showing moderate traffic.  Most of my network tools aren't showing any bottlenecks. 

This problem is slowing down work on my website projects for class. I had to give up for tonight. I got an essay for 328 done and some page chagnes.  444 needs a lot of work yet.  I need to finish the Jewel site stuff and write the essay.  Most of the students are behind on this one.  I think a time adjustment was needed..  We had the time in the semester if we would have started earlier.