Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] at home outage

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Tue, 1 May 2001, Neil Bradshaw wrote:

> I don't see how that would affect it. I'm on a DSL and my connection
> is fine. If anything happened to the phone service, you'd think my DSL
> line would be the first thing to go.

Well, maybe somebody from Telecom is reading this, but I was under the
impression that the campus *long distance* service (the local service was
fine), a huge account if there ever was one, is provided via a special
leased pipe of some largish diameter.  The surmise would be that the same
fiber cable carries some or all of @home's local connection to the net.

If that were the case, local phone service and fast internet access
provided over local lines probably wasn't much affected, unless your ISP
happened to be re-selling bandwidth provided by ATT or something.

> But, I don't know much about the communcation infastructure here in
> Columbia outside of what IATS controls, so this is the blind leading
> the blind so to speak.

Same goes for me.  But I can remember thinking when I read our original
departmental announcement of the phone outage, "Gee, I wonder if this will
nuke my cable modem" and then being totally not surprised when, indeed, I
go home and see the 3 blinking lights of death (BLOD). :-/

jking

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