Locked out of the Duty Finder.

[Tiggy]

Really? If you give up before you try, then go ahead and take that position.

First off you don't know what problems I've personally had with the internet, what I've done to fix it, and how much work I've done to identify the problem, or if I have even had personal problems at all. Acknowledging that the internet is large and owned by dozens of different businesses that don't always play nice with one another and acknowledging how difficult it can be to fix problems between you and the server in no way shape or form suggests anything about the state of my own internet or any steps I've taken to smooth out my experience. It doesn't even suggest that I personally have problems. Keep your ridiculous baseless assumptions to yourself.

Level3 is not immune to pressure from from its customer base.

That would be true if even a single person here was a customer of Level3, except the reality is that not one person here is a direct customer of level 3 since it's an internet backbone not an ISP. So not a single person here has any leverage in order to get them to do anything at level3. Do not sit here and assume that all internet problems are easily solved by the consumer. It displays a complete ignorance for how the internet works and a complete ignorance about the options people actually have to remedy the problem.

In any case 3 strikes per day is more than enough to handle the ocassional 90K disconnect and accidental strikes that can occur in that 45 second window.

I 100% disagree with you. Even one strike against me for something I didn't do is too much. Regardless of the amount of strikes. You need to grasp that basic concept. No argument you have will ever convince me that I should suck up a punishment due to the actions of another or in my example the malfunctions of the internet for another.