[SATLUG] Anyone experience DSL outage?

[Geoff]

Victor wrote:
> Did anyone else get hit with DSL outage earlier tonight? The problem
> seems to have been fixed, even though it took AT&T an amazing two
> hours to do so. Apparently one of their edge routers
> (rback7-g1-0.snantx.sbcglobal.net) had an issue and they fixed it in
> two hours (Road Runner was worse when I subscribed to them)
>   

Everyone keeps saying that RR has such lousy cable internet service...

I think I've had -1- (non-storm related) outtage and that's when some 
bozo decided to topple a tree with a rope tied to the bumper of his 
Suburban, and the other to the top of the tree... which was in his back 
yard... inside the confines of overhead power, phone, cable lines... and 
the Suburban was in the alley.

They just happened to be the distribution lines for the entire quadrant 
of the neighborhood.

RR has been rocking along for me glitch-less for ...goodness... 5 years, 
now?

Interestingly enough, while there was no electricity in the 
neighborhood, TW was dispatched with a generator to power up it's local 
neighborhood switch.  I thought that was rather impressive of them.  No 
electricity, but there's still internet. 

Only thing I can think of is, there was a home-business involved that 
needed it's presence on the web, with that house having either a 
generator, or a mighty UPS.

My only bitch about -any- broad-band service, is the price.