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RE: Hot weather and power outages continue
From: "William S. Duncanson" <caesar () starkreality com>
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 17:17:57 -0500
Indeed, my RoadRunner connection is the same way. All of my stuff stays up, but "teh Interweb is broken." I'm guessing that they (DSL/CableCo's) find it too cost-prohibitive to roll out UPSes to the customer aggregation points. Suprisingly, my cable TV goes out as well when the power goes, so it might just be more than the CMTS that's going out. -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On Behalf Of Michael Loftis Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 16:20 To: nanog () merit edu Subject: Re: Hot weather and power outages continue --On July 24, 2006 2:22:26 AM -0400 Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com> wrote:
While its expected for individual customers to go down during power outages, usually because the customer does not have local backup power, it is less common for major web sites and co-location centers to experience downtime during power outages.
Except if you're in Qwest territory. Apparently they don't put any battery backup at their mini-DSLAMs and such. Every time we lose power, I'm still up, but the DSL signal goes away. Haven't checked dialtone, but I keep meaning too during the next outage. Now I know it's not exactly fair singling out Qwest, because I'll bet Verizon and others share the same thing, and I'm pretty sure it's just their ADSL service and not the voice service (I haven't checked though) it's still becoming more and more common that as an individual user your connection to the internet, unless you're paying for something other than ADSL or Cable, will be just as affected by local power outages.
Current thread:
- Re: Hot weather and power outages continue, (continued)
- Re: Hot weather and power outages continue Richard A Steenbergen (Jul 24)
- Re: Hot weather and power outages continue Sean Donelan (Jul 24)
- RE: Hot weather and power outages continue Sam Stickland (Jul 25)
- Re: Hot weather and power outages continue Brandon Galbraith (Jul 25)
- Re: Hot weather and power outages continue Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. (Jul 25)
- Re: Hot weather and power outages continue Sean Donelan (Jul 24)
- Re: Hot weather and power outages continue Richard A Steenbergen (Jul 24)
- Re: Hot weather and power outages continue Christopher L. Morrow (Jul 24)
- Re: Hot weather and power outages continue Robert E . Seastrom (Jul 24)
- Re: Hot weather and power outages continue Jim Popovitch (Jul 24)
- Re: Hot weather and power outages continue Christopher L. Morrow (Jul 24)
- RE: Hot weather and power outages continue William S. Duncanson (Jul 24)
- Re: Hot weather and power outages continue Brandon Galbraith (Jul 24)
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- Re: Hot weather and power outages continue Daniel Senie (Jul 24)
- RE: Hot weather and power outages continue Frank Bulk (Jul 24)
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- RE: Hot weather and power outages continue Daniel Senie (Jul 24)
- RE: Hot weather and power outages continue Frank Bulk (Jul 24)
- RE: Hot weather and power outages continue Christian Nielsen (Jul 24)
- RE: Hot weather and power outages continue Justin M. Streiner (Jul 24)