RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] at home outage

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Well it is back up but still actting odd. I can't believe those morons cut
the line in half. Duh! :P

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Michael McGlothlin <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
http://www.kavlon.com

'The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.'
Lewis Carroll

On Wed, 2 May 2001, David Abadir wrote:

> My coworker said he called AT&T last night and they are giving him 1 day's
> worth of credit.  They also said it *should* be back by noon today.  We'll
> see.
> david
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: McNutt, Justin M. [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 11:01 AM
> To: EMAIL:PROTECTED
> Subject: RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] at home outage
> 
> 
> > > 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.
> 
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