Repeated Astound internet interruptions were reported near Pacific Place in downtown Seattle, with service dropping yesterday evening, then again this morning and this afternoon.

The problem did not appear to be citywide. Service was reported as working normally in Chinatown-International District, suggesting the disruption may have been concentrated in parts of downtown rather than across all Seattle customers.

Calls, payments and routine daytime activity are also vulnerable to outages in the center city, where internet connections serve more than home use. Apartment residents, office workers and storefronts in the same few blocks often rely on the same connections, leaving them exposed to interruptions even when a service problem is localized.