Spectrum goes down in several US states with users reporting total blackouts

American cable giant Spectrum has suffered a widespread outage across the US.

Customers in Dallas, New York City and Boston have reported issues, along with residents in Tampa, Florida who were ravaged by Hurricane Milton overnight.

Downdetector, a site that monitors outages, shows landlines have been disrupted, but some users have reported complete blackouts.

Downdetecor’s website shows that Spectrum has been experiencing issues since Wednesday morning, but a flood of outage reports were issued around 8:25am ET.

Approximately 45 percent of users cited problems with landlines, 31 percent have total blackouts and 24 percent of customers cannot get a signal. 

Residents in North Carolina flooded X with posts about internet issues, some noting this is the third outage in the last two weeks.

And those living in South Carolina have also shared ‘Spectrum systems are down’ even though power has been back on for a week after Hurricane Helene ripped through the area.

‘Wow. @Ask_Spectrum internet is down AGAIN. It was down for a few days after Helene, which is understandable. I got it back for about 36 hours, then it went down for another 4-5 days before it came back. It’s been back for 2 days and now it’s down again. Make it make sense,’ one customer shared on X.

However, another user not near Hurricane Milton reported they are also experiencing issues with the internet provider.

‘Tell me why the internet is down this time, hurricane milton was no where near va or sc So WHYYY,’ they posted.

Tampa local Matt Nachtrab, who appears to have been caught in Hurricane Milton, shared on X that the he has power, but ‘internet from Spectrum is down.’ 

However, more than 2.8 million Floridians are also without power due to the catastrophic storm.

The first casualties were reported even before Milton made landfall as a Category 3 storm around 8:30pm ET, bringing flooding, 120mph winds and several twisters. 

Downdetecor’s websites shows that Spectrum has been experiencing issues since Wednesday morning, but a flood of outage reports were issued around 8:25am ET

After making landfall, Milton began rumbling east, ripping up everything in its path before ripping apart the roof of Tropicana Field, the home of the Tampa Bay Rays baseball team in St. Petersburg. 

At least 117 tornado warnings were issued in communities across the state overnight and into this morning, with dozens reported to have materialized and wrought havoc. More than 3 million homes and businesses were without power Thursday morning in Florida.