What is real here

This site shows what is broken on the internet right now. It is not affiliated with any company on it, sells nothing, and every number is counted when the page is served.

Two kinds of evidence, never mixed

Reported. 88 companies publish a machine-readable status endpoint — Atlassian Statuspage, Instatus, or their own JSON — and this site reads them live, every two minutes. If OpenAI says it is degraded, that is OpenAI's word, shown as OpenAI's word, with a link to their page. On the last read 88 of 88 answered. No API key is involved anywhere, which is why this pipeline cannot quietly stop working when a key expires.

Measured. 25 carrier and ISP networks are watched a completely different way, because they left no choice.

The carriers publish nothing, so this site does not quote them

On 2026-09-08 every one of these was probed for a status endpoint: AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, US Cellular, Comcast Xfinity, Charter Spectrum, Cox, Lumen CenturyLink, Frontier, Starlink, Vodafone, EE, BT, Virgin Media, Rogers, Bell and Telus. Not one of them has one. Most do not even resolve a status. hostname.

That is the single most tempting place to invent something on a site like this — a green dot beside “Verizon” that means nothing. So instead of a status page they do not have, this site reports what can actually be observed from outside: reachability to each network's ASN, via IODA, Georgia Tech's public Internet Outage Detection and Analysis project. IODA watches each network three independent ways — BGP routing tables, active pings to /24 blocks, and a network telescope — and publishes both alerts and raw signal.

That is a different claim, and the wording follows it everywhere. Never “Verizon reports an outage”. Always: reachability to their network is below its own recent baseline. Every network page says so, and every network row is stamped measured rather than reported.

What measurement cannot see. It sees whether a network is reachable from the wider internet. It cannot see whether your phone has signal, whether one city is affected, or why. A carrier can look perfectly healthy at the ASN level while your local cell site is dead.

What this site refuses to do

It does not scrape crowd reports. Downdetector and its kind are other people's data, sit behind a bot wall, and their terms say no. There is no “reports in the last hour” number here, because getting one honestly is not possible.

It does not average the two kinds of evidence. A provider saying “operational” while measurement shows a problem is interesting, and flattening that into one score would destroy the only interesting thing about it. Both are shown, labelled, side by side.

It does not invent history. There is no uptime percentage, because this site has not been watching long enough to have one. When it has, it will say over what window.

How a network gets flagged

Each network's reachable-/24 count is compared with its own median over the last three hours, excluding the newest points so a live dip cannot flatten its own baseline. Below 85% is degraded; below 60% is an outage. IODA's own alert, which uses all three of its datasources rather than the one this page charts, overrides that judgement when it fires. Normal daily rhythm moves a few percent and is not flagged.

Counting

There is no stored total anywhere on this site. Each page counts the two wires it just read. If a wire fails, the pages say so and show the silent count rather than quietly shrinking the denominator.