<HTML>David Campbell wrote:
>
> There has
> been extraordinary solar activity for days and I'm sure this
> had something to do with communication glitches here in North
> America.
The Sun has certainly been active, but its hardly been extraordinarily so, especially considering that we are now pretty close to the most active period of the sunspot cycle. (BTW, if anyone has eclipse shades, there is a nice big sunspot group currently visible without optical aid.)
> It was expected by some that satellites would be
> offline as they were last spring when a similar event
> happened.
A CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) hit Earth on Tuesday/Wednesday. If you stuff was down before that, it probably [g] wasn't the cause.
> Just curious as to how far reaching the effects of
> this event were.
See my comments on routeing and DoS to Don in the " Missing Sites ... Please advise" thread.</HTML>
