A local ISP has this webpage that they call "Network Status" that has information on the www as far as outages and slowdowns, etc. You can view it here:

http://www.georgian.net/status.htm

It only involves dialup, though, and I am wondering if anybody else knows of a similiar website, I have cable.

Don't everybody go there at once. This is a small town ISP and I don't want them to crash.