any one else?

chevyman282 · Post by **chevyman282** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 3:22 pm

No internet for almost 24 hours...
here is the reason why..

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?news ... 6371&rfi=6

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 3:24 pm

Lost it for something like 1/2 hour yesterday...yeah. (TV too)

Had to refer to my checkbook..to see when the last time was that I paid my bill.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 3:28 pm

Late Friday night, a train explosion northwest of Pittsburgh knocked out the fiber optic line that runs high speed data service through the area. Two dozen cars carrying ethanol, also known as grain alcohol, were derailed and several exploded, according to reports.

there goes gas prices again

chevyman282 · Post by **chevyman282** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 3:33 pm

YeOldeStonecat wrote:Lost it for something like 1/2 hour yesterday...yeah. (TV too)

Had to refer to my checkbook..to see when the last time was that I paid my bill.

Yos, I know I paid my bill..lol....last week I lost the connection for 4 days, I am supposed to recieve $4 CREDIT ON MY NEXT BILL..WHOPPEDOO!...My cable bill is about $100.00 a month, the math does not work out..plus the outage includes no cable television..after almost 40years of marriage the last thing I want is talk to the wife..lol

a talked outchevyman...lol

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 3:36 pm

Heeheehee....

So grain, mixed with explosions..that's how they get the PowerBoost in the lines.

MissTynker2 · Post by **MissTynker2** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 3:39 pm

Something similar happened here, tho not anywhere near as serious, a couple of weeks ago. Some construction workers, while getting ready for some new underground installation of some sort, pipelines, I believe it was....sliced through sbc's, now at&t's main cable and crippled this area. Services were out for a couple of days, while repairs were being made. Did not effect me personally, as I cannot get that service in this area..however..the saddest part of all is when 3 seperate friends of mine called their isp services, to see if there was a problem....and told NO!! No outages!! Grrrrrr!!!

chevyman282 · Post by **chevyman282** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 3:44 pm

MissTynker2 wrote:Something similar happened here, tho not anywhere near as serious, a couple of weeks ago. Some construction workers, while getting ready for some new underground installation of some sort, pipelines, I believe it was....sliced through sbc's, now at&t's main cable and crippled this area. Services were out for a couple of days, while repairs were being made. Did not effect me personally, as I cannot get that service in this area..however..the saddest part of all is when 3 seperate friends of mine called their isp services, to see if there was a problem....and told NO!! No outages!! Grrrrrr!!!

MissTynker, I got the same story last week, no problems in our area,according to TW, I happened to go to the store and seen at leat 3 TW trucks working in the area..I HATE BEING LIED TO....

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MissTynker2 · Post by **MissTynker2** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 3:50 pm

Exactly Chevyman!! Tell the dang truth!! Chit happens, ya know, and THAT at least is acceptable, instead of misleading your customers, having them running around frantically, trying to figure out what in the world is wrong, and two of those friends computers, at least, I keep up..so guess who got two frantic calls after getting the word that everything was ok! Jerks!!

Not the friends!!...the companies!! lol! Takes a bit of adjusting for me to get out and around to get to them right now as well....double irk! I did learn from that one however...after discovering there was not a blessed thing I could do...ummmm....check your tv!

On me!

Kip Patterson · Post by **Kip Patterson** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 4:02 pm

The interesting part of this, and a lot of other outages, is that the original design principles of the Internet included redundancy so that if Cleveland were to disappear nto radiactive dust, the net would stay up.

In the present implementation, there is no/not enough redundancy to accomodate even a single fiber cut in most instances.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 4:06 pm

Kip Patterson wrote:The interesting part of this, and a lot of other outages, is that the original design principles of the Internet included redundancy so that if Cleveland were to disappear nto radiactive dust, the net would stay up.

In the present implementation, there is no/not enough redundancy to accomodate even a single fiber cut in most instances.

you got this right.. TW is taking over Adelphia and a while back I had the worse pings and high latency I've ever had with Cable.. they couldn't get a story straight on what the problem was or a time of repair.. it was very lame! They could have took that part down and routed us through another area but noooo.. I had 4 weeks of crappy internet at which I thought dialup was better!