said by avantwireles :

The problem was the private peering point for the west coast between charter and Google. Charter shut down the peering ppint until they can truely fix it and let BGP reroute all traffic to another peering point. That made the problem go away. It happened late last night. I'm a little freaked that we would find/report/chase the problem before any charter cable customers did. Seems like it should have generated tons of customer complaints... Maybe there is just no way for cable customers to feed this sort of thing back in. Or they are just used to this kind of service, or thought it was a google problem Anyways, we will be more vigilant in the future... The line between websites and networks continues to blur...