Yeah. But they don't last forever. I've also found that they drain faster than they charge too.
Right now I have rolling power outages in at least 4 towns spread out by a good 80 miles via road. The power is on, then off then on then off. It's not like I can just got to town A and fire up a generator. Plus, these towns combine for a total of 11 sites! I don't have that many generators. Wanna know the funny part? In Wilbur, AT&T's cell tower has been down more than I have! grin People still had phone service most of the time. One of the cell phone companies stayed up. If there was NO communications infrastructure in place I'd have worked harder to keep things running. Without help and a lot more generators/gas cans it just wasn't possible though. The weather is supposed to break today or tomorrow. I don't know how long it'll take to clean up all of the broken limbs etc. though. laters, marlon ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Rogato" <wi...@oregonfast.net> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:22 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC! > Don't you have battery back ups? > > > Marlon K. Schafer wrote: >> Looks pretty normal around here. But some of our towers are offline >> again >> due to all of the power outages. >> marlon >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Eric Tykwinski" <eric-l...@truenet.com> >> To: "'WISPA General List'" <wireless@wispa.org> >> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:52 AM >> Subject: Re: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC! >> >> >>> Everyone on NANOG has been saying the same. We're actually seeing close >>> to >>> triple on downloading today, starting about 9AM EST. >>> Thankfully no issues on capacity at all on our end... >>> >>> I'm actually surprised the sites serving the videos aren't having any >>> issues >>> yet. >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On >>> Behalf Of David E. Smith >>> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 12:46 PM >>> To: WISPA General List >>> Subject: [WISPA] We're being DDOS'd by DC! >>> >>> Not really, but is everyone else seeing lots of extra traffic from >>> people >>> streaming inauguration-related events in DC? My network is pulling >>> basically >>> double the traffic of a "normal" Tuesday. >>> >>> (There's a lesson about capacity planning in here somewhere...) >>> >>> David Smith >>> MVN.net >>> >>> >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> ---- >>> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >>> http://signup.wispa.org/ >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> ---- >>> >>> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >>> >>> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >>> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >>> >>> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >>> >>> >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >>> http://signup.wispa.org/ >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >>> >>> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >>> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >>> >>> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
