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Outage Disrupts East Coast Internet Traffic
Wall St. Journal ^ | Oct. 19, 2013 | DREW FITZGERALD

Posted on 10/19/2013 7:30:35 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey

Internet users from Brooklyn to Philadelphia suffered slow to nonexistent service Saturday after equipment at a New York-area network hub broke down, disrupting service for several hours.

A spokesman for the Internet service provider Level 3 Communications Inc. LVLT +0.25% said technicians were working quickly to fix the outage, which cascaded down to customers using Cablevision Systems Corp.'s CVC -0.45% Optimum service and Time Warner Cable Inc., TWC -0.36% among others.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: cablevision; internet; level3; timewarner; twc
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To: 1rudeboy
Dude. Stuff breaks down once in a while.

And people make mistakes, often. I've seen people pushing the wrong buttons. One example: my wife was working on an install in a computer room in SF with a co-worker, major corporation in California. They were routing cables under the floor tiles when her co-worker decided to tug a tight cable. My wife is yelling at him not to do that, because hundreds of important cables are under the floor. Next thing they know, alarms are sounding. The idiot knocked out their networks throughout California and Nevada.

61 posted on 10/19/2013 11:01:37 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: Paladin2

Actually, it is now possible to send email over ham radio. Check out Winlink.


62 posted on 10/20/2013 2:43:23 AM PDT by Grammy (He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that they cannot carry out their plans. Job 5:12)
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To: dfwgator
Did somebody type “Google” into Google?

Does that create some kind of infinite recursion loop? Like standing in a room with mirrors opposite one another?

63 posted on 10/20/2013 8:30:39 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: hulagirl

No..the internet is just a networking of computer..the old analogy of a highway of computers is correct but in this case when they turn it off all the highways disappear so you have an uplink to a dead end


64 posted on 10/20/2013 3:20:09 PM PDT by tophat9000 (Are we headed to a Cracker Slacker War?)
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To: tophat9000

65 posted on 10/20/2013 3:24:23 PM PDT by dfwgator
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