Scott, We are a little over 100 miles west of the Quad Cities, close to hwy 30, just east of central Iowa. Your thoughts?
Mike At 08:00 AM 12/1/2009, you wrote: >How far away from Illinois are you? > > > >--------------------------------------------- >Scott Piehn > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Mike" <m...@aweiowa.com> >To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> >Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 7:52 AM >Subject: Re: [WISPA] A Ridiculous Failure of Critical Infrastructure > > > > Mediacomm was having some bad equipment problems in Marshalltown or > > Des Moines a couple months ago. It was on a hand off to Sprint on > > some fiber shelf. It bit us twice, each on a Sunday, for most of the > > day. After the second episode, which apparently happened after > > scheduled maintenance, I am convinced the big boys decided to mess > > with a couple little guys. Sunday outages usually affect residential > > users, which are my bread and butter. > > > > Unfortunately, I didn't have enough sense to have my upstream > > provider supply me with a map of exactly how the traffic was routed, > > and the outages affected my primary connection AND my backup. Seems > > both Dynamic Broadband and Mediacomm hand off to Sprint here in this > > part of Iowa. So, even my back-up as currently configured can be at risk. > > > > Needless to say, I have a winter project to engineer something going > > to the east from here. > > > > Matt, I hope they get it figured out for you guys soon. If you're > > anything like me, all hairs are already gray. > > > > Mike > > > > At 01:54 AM 12/1/2009, you wrote: > >>Some kind of combination of failure between Charter and Qwest has left > >>tens of thousands of people in Nebraska without Internet and has > >>disrupted the Internet and phone services for thousands more. Right > >>now, the outage is going on 12 hours and there is no ETA for repair in > >>sight. > >> > >>The word coming down is that the outage is on a Qwest fiber, but it > >>looks to me like both parties should be on the hot seat for not having > >>the ability to route around the problem. There was a four hour outage > >>on Charter a week ago that was caused by a fiber cut in Gothenburg, > >>Nebraska. > >>That one killed everything west of the cut, but it was small potatoes > >>compared to this one. Is this truly the level of performance that we > >>can expect from our major Internet backbone providers? It took me > >>about 10 seconds to re-route my traffic to a backup provider - you would > >>think that a couple of multimillion dollar companies would be able to > >>sort out a problem of this nature in a reasonable amount of time. The > >>small CLEC that I use for my backup connection had enough capacity to > >>route around the problem and was even able to lend me a little bit after > >>5pm when the traffic on their network (mostly businesses) dropped off. > >>It isn't rocket science to figure out how to route around an outage. > >> > >>Almost as frustrating is that there was NO news about the outages > >>anywhere except on the social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter). > >>One TV station in Hastings, NE put up a short story on their website, > >>but I got more news from the tweets and FB posts that people where > >>posting from their cell phones than I did from anywhere else. None of > >>the network outage sites have any news about this. > >> > >>Could this be a harbinger of things to come? I am feeling pretty > >>thankful right now that I have a choice in backbone providers and that I > >>kept a second one. Diversity is a good thing, and this is a great > >>example of why we need competition and multiple options for Internet. > >> > >>Matt Larsen > >>vistabeam.com > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >>------------------------------------------------------------------ > -------------- > >>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! 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