ATT Crashes

[VERO1]

Remember! You have to have the shiney side out!

[Ted S.]

Funny, my phone won't call or ring but I can get on the Internet through it.

 

Not unusual. Network prioritization tends to reserve some network technologies (typically 3G, HSPA+ and LTE) exlusively for data, and the lower techs for voice application. If you've ever used data during a voice call, you'll only see one network tech icon (like 4G, LTE, etc...) but you are actually using two tech types at once, one for the voice call and the other for data. The magic of network prioritization!

[BigK]

I wrapped my phone in tinfoil, you know...just in case. I'm pretty confident that will do the trick...not sure, though, can't see the screen.

[Ted S.]

I wrapped my phone in tinfoil, you know...just in case. I'm pretty confident that will do the trick...not sure, though, can't see the screen.

 

If you can't see the screen; neither can they.

[BigK]

If you can't see the screen; neither can they.

 

exactly!! 

[gjohnsoniv]

Not unusual. Network prioritization tends to reserve some network technologies (typically 3G, HSPA+ and LTE) exlusively for data, and the lower techs for voice application. If you've ever used data during a voice call, you'll only see one network tech icon (like 4G, LTE, etc...) but you are actually using two tech types at once, one for the voice call and the other for data. The magic of network prioritization!

I'm aware of that.

[Ted S.]

I'm aware of that.

 

Then stop being weirded out by the magic!

[R_Bert]

I beat the demons out of mine with a hammer.  It turned off OK, but now I can't find the power button to get it back on.

[vontar]

FYI, this has NOT affected my Magic Jack phone. It has been running just fine.

[vontar]

Everyone claim down. I understand while the Media has distracted us with Flags and Lions the NSA has been upgrading the network to route all traffic though their central hub for more efficient data collection and mining. When the upgrade is complete the internet and phone service will return to normal. Next year they will install your sex monitoring chips. However you will still have the right to chose which hand it goes in.

[vontar]

Just got Full signal on my Verizon and made a call.

[Dolomite_supafly]

Has anyone figured it out yet? Hackers? Or something more sinister.

Think about it, most Americans use cell phones so if you take that away you take away their ability to call for help. I read that one police department was crippled by this because most communications, even within the department, went through cell phone systems.

Almost like some sort of DDOS attack along with an attack on the phone system. They are two different systems so for both to be affected it must be some sort of catastrophic screw up or a dedicated attack on both systems. I think the data side was hit with a DDOS attack because the network is still working, just super slow. Took a minute for a small "test" text to go through.

The phone side of it has been out for me since 3:15 and has not returned. The data side has worked but very slow.

[Dolomite_supafly]

I just made a call.

[LagerHead]

It was a hardware issue. Not sure what all I'm supposed to say just yet, but we were on the phone the whole afternoon. It's 7:33PM CDT and we just hung up. Looks like everything is back to normal. I was without LTE and U-Verse, lots of Internet backbone stuff was down, etc. Basically anything that ran on IP in the Southeast and even a little beyond was affected.

[blewbayou]

Never had any interruptions or outages with my phone. Been just like any other day. I have Verizon.

[K191145]

My two tin cans with the string isn't working either.   :ugh:

[MacGyver]

Chicom attack on MAE-East.

[felinesNfreedom]

Everything is up and running, I survived JADE HELM 2015  :clap:

[Dolomite_supafly]

Everything is up and running, I survived JADE HELM 2015 :clap:

You gonna be selling those T-shirts?

[felinesNfreedom]

You gonna be selling those T-shirts?

 

 

Yep, already emailed the design to my screen printer. I will be running a TGO special buy if anyone is interested. 

[macville]

It was a hardware issue. Not sure what all I'm supposed to say just yet, but we were on the phone the whole afternoon. It's 7:33PM CDT and we just hung up. Looks like everything is back to normal. I was without LTE and U-Verse, lots of Internet backbone stuff was down, etc. Basically anything that ran on IP in the Southeast and even a little beyond was affected.

 

Strange, my wife at home with u-verse internet have full service. I even skyped her fine because I couldn't make a regular phone call on Cricket.

[vontar]

My two tin cans with the string isn't working either.   :ugh:

  Try a new string.

[TNMTBik3r]

I heard a report it was a dos attack. But then the news reported simultaneous core router hardware failure.
Came back up right about 7pm for me. 5 hour outage. Edited August 5, 2015 by jonathon1289

[vontar]

Looks like the nuclear option was used.

 

https://downdetector.com/status/verizon-wireless/news/77898-problems-at-verizon-wireless

[Ted S.]

Everything is up and running, I survived JADE HELM 2015  :clap:

 

You're not out of the water yet, there's still quite some time left