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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: Hot weather and power outages continue
Indeed, my RoadRunner connection is the same way. All of my stuff stays up, but "teh Interweb is broken." I'm guessing that they (DSL/CableCo's) find it too cost-prohibitive to roll out UPSes to the customer aggregation points. Suprisingly, my cable TV goes out as well when the power goes, so it might just be more than the CMTS that's going out. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Loftis Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 16:20 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Hot weather and power outages continue --On July 24, 2006 2:22:26 AM -0400 Sean Donelan <[email protected]> wrote: > While its expected for individual customers to go down during power > outages, usually because the customer does not have local backup > power, it is less common for major web sites and co-location centers > to experience downtime during power outages. Except if you're in Qwest territory. Apparently they don't put any battery backup at their mini-DSLAMs and such. Every time we lose power, I'm still up, but the DSL signal goes away. Haven't checked dialtone, but I keep meaning too during the next outage. Now I know it's not exactly fair singling out Qwest, because I'll bet Verizon and others share the same thing, and I'm pretty sure it's just their ADSL service and not the voice service (I haven't checked though) it's still becoming more and more common that as an individual user your connection to the internet, unless you're paying for something other than ADSL or Cable, will be just as affected by local power outages.
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