Red Squirrel
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Probably never going to find out as this is not the type of stuff they're release to the public, but I'd be so curious to know what the issue was, from a technical standpoint. It had to be something very major related to something centralized. I'm thinking my theory of route table issue can't be it at this point given how long this lasted.
Must be some central piece of equipment that failed, and it was probably hard to get parts for it or something. I'm thinking some kind of transport equipment or something though typically that would only affect a certain geographical area not the entire network.
It is crazy though how fragile the internet and overall communication network really is. Often times we think of it as a big mesh, but it's not actually quite how it works. There are actually lot of single points of failure throughout the system.
Must be some central piece of equipment that failed, and it was probably hard to get parts for it or something. I'm thinking some kind of transport equipment or something though typically that would only affect a certain geographical area not the entire network.
It is crazy though how fragile the internet and overall communication network really is. Often times we think of it as a big mesh, but it's not actually quite how it works. There are actually lot of single points of failure throughout the system.
sdifox
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Red Squirrel
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Lol we had a janitor plug a vacuum in an inverter outlet on side of the DSLAM bay once and blew the breaker. Took out the whole internet for the city. lmao. I think it's setup better now so that should not happen, but I'm not going to test that theory.
Red Squirrel
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Just got a dialup trouble. I can't imagine we have more than like 5 customers on that box lol.
mnewsham
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My boss still had Dialup in 2018 but when power went out for like 4 or 5 days after a storm they cancelled his service during the power outage and closed the account and when he tried to sign up again they told him they were no longer offering dialup service for new customers (which he now was since they closed his previous account).
They were clearly just trying to remove dialup users from their network. He was grandfathered in on some $9.99/month contract that he'd maintained since the 90's or early 2000s.
After his account was closed though he finally upgraded to DOCSIS with cable TV (he had been using OTA TV previously). Went from ~$30/month with dialup and home phone to ~$70/month for home phone, 100mbps DOCSIS, and basic cable TV.
He enjoyed the extra speed since he could finally watch youtube videos people were sending him (previously all he was doing on his dialup was replying to emails) and he seemed pretty happy the TV didn't go out during storms.
Red Squirrel
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Haha yeah I bet they were just hoping to get rid of the aging equipment. Could possibly be the power outage actually took it out too. Though that stuff is normally on -48v backup.
The box that runs ours is made by 3com, which used to be big in networking back in the day but company went defunct years ago.
The box that runs ours is made by 3com, which used to be big in networking back in the day but company went defunct years ago.
bigboxes
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Red Squirrel
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We still have some USR modems at work, that we actually use lol. Lot of the equipment we manage is dialup accessible only. Super old school. There is some that they were able to retro fit with IP access though.
Red Squirrel
No Lifer
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