ATT Crashes

[tbenedict]

Very strange since there is redundancy/rings built into networks anymore....but I remember a fiber cut taking down internet for a bunch of folks a few years ago....

[seax]

I was at the shop checking emails when the computer stopped working. So I built another rifle and finished customizing a pistol. The time was better spent and more relaxing.

[Ted S.]

Very strange since there is redundancy/rings built into networks anymore....but I remember a fiber cut taking down internet for a bunch of folks a few years ago....

 

Which happened today as well out west:

 

 

Heather Wong, the Southern California spokesperson for Sprint, said , "We are aware of a fiber cut in the Yucca Valley area that is causing a service disruption for some Sprint customers.

http://www.kesq.com/news/large-phoneinternet-outage-affects-high-desert-residents/34535514

 

The only thing I can find on the problem that happened around us is that it's "a hardware issue" which could be anything from cut fiber to you name it. That would be a lot fucking cut fiber to affect as large an area as the outage maps I've seen for Verizon and ATT though.

[Oh Shoot]

Looks like the nuclear option was used.

 

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

 

I guess so:

 

"Error 503 backend read error

backend read error

Guru Mediation:

Details: cache-iad2140-IAD 1438745882 2545134387

Varnish cache server"

[K191145]

It does bring up the question of just how fragile all this new technology and network we all depend on is. Of course this wasn't really nothing BUT, we may be one solar flare away of having a real shutdown, and not fixable in one day either. It happened in 1858 but it didn't put out the lanterns or stop the steam engines then, everybody just looked at the pretty aroras in the sky then they went back to their business. What if that happened today?

[Ted S.]

It does bring up the question of just how fragile all this new technology and network we all depend on is. Of course this wasn't really nothing BUT, we may be one solar flare away of having a real shutdown, and not fixable in one day either. It happened in 1858 but it didn't put out the lanterns or stop the steam engines then, everybody just looked at the pretty aroras in the sky then they went back to their business. What if that happened today?

 

What about those telegraph lines?? :tinfoil:

 

 

Telegraph systems all over Europe and North America failed, in some cases giving telegraph operators electric shocks.^[9] Telegraph pylons threw sparks.^[10] Some telegraph operators could continue to send and receive messages despite having disconnected their power supplies.^[11]

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_1859

[Oh Shoot]

It does bring up the question of just how fragile all this new technology and network we all depend on is. Of course this wasn't really nothing BUT, we may be one solar flare away of having a real shutdown, and not fixable in one day either. It happened in 1858 but it didn't put out the lanterns or stop the steam engines then, ....

 

It did widely disrupt telegraph service over North America and Europe though.

 

It seems an assumed fact that the same level event would really play some havoc today. Apparently one of similar strength dodged us in 2012.

 

- OS

 

edit: Almost a tie, Ted. :)

Edited August 5, 2015 by Oh Shoot

[Randall53]

I snoozed, someone beat me to the Jade Helm conspiracy theory. Have you tried making an antenna for your cell phone out of tin foil yet?

I don't have any left after making my hat. :shrug:

[K191145]

What about those telegraph lines?? :tinfoil:

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_1859

 

If a flare could do that to wire and old batteries, what can it do to the fragile circuitry in just about everything we own. Hell, freaking toasters have circuit boards in them these days.

[Ted S.]

edit: Almost a tie, Ted. :)

 

:taunt:

[peejman]

I put my phone on my bed-side table when I got home from work yesterday and didn't pick it up again until this morning.  First I heard of this was the story on the news while eating breakfast.  Ignorance is indeed bliss.

[TGO David]

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.

 

We were kicking your company's ass from about 2pm - 7pm yesterday.  Don't hate me for it.  :)

[LagerHead]

We were kicking your company's ass from about 2pm - 7pm yesterday.  Don't hate me for it.   :)

 

Ha, not at all. I used to do the same thing when I was a customer.