RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] at home outage

["McNutt, Justin M." <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> > 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.

Local phone services were not affected (that I know of).  Long distance
through AT&T was affected.  All MOREnet connectivity through AT&T was
affected (which is why the 'Net through UMC was slow; we had to traverse
backup paths through other vendors' conenctions).

DSL connections to Verizon (some, not all) were hosed, as is AT&T @Home
service.

Keep in mind that it wasn't just fiber that was cut.  The whole concrete
conduit collapsed, so anything in it was nuked.  The long-distance fiber was
repaired first (for MOREnet and AT&T LDS, for example), but we were told
that some of the other less-critical services could be down for as long as a
couple of days.

It's got me too.  My wife can't submit her homework until she gets dialup
working again.  Cable modem sitting there with nowhere to go.  Traceroute
shows that the cable modem network *itself* is up, but data gets stopped
about two hops away, which suggests that the linkage between @Home and the
rest of the world is what's broken.

--J
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