North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Cablevision/OptimumOnline Long Island - massive outage
Don't know. They use mostly Cisco equipment - GSRs I believe. Chris Zydel is their chief IP engineer - a good guy, and quite clueful. Daniel Golding On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Kai Schlichting wrote: > > Cablevision/OptimumOnline, Long Island, NY has massive roving outages of > their cable Internet service swince Friday evening: calling their > customer service line gets you 30+ min. waits before a drone answers > who will ask if you power-cycled your cable modem and computer, then > puts you on hold for another 30+ (I was too impatient to wait longer) > to wait for a "technician". The list of cities effected by the outage > seems to change (on their on-hold tape) every 2 hours, is somewhere > between 6-10 cities at a time, and in 4 calls, I have heard probably > 30 different city names by now :) > > What could bring down such a large cable system in parts and repeatedly > for many hours at a time is beyond me: one of my SSH sessions just > resumed from being stuck for 11+ hours: Modifying your TCP kernel > (or registry - your platform pick) settings to not time out for a > few days is a really good idea :) > > bye,Kai > >
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