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Re: Anyone here near Des Plaines IL? - Racer X - 07-24-2009
but it didn't say what level of service, did it. Complete recovery vs spotty and slow?
Oops, it did "It wasn't until May 23rd that residents got local service back, while regional and long-distance phone service remained spotty at best for some time afterwards."
Re: Anyone here near Des Plaines IL? - AAA - 07-24-2009
again. I was there. 'some time again...' that is not entirely forthright.
Might have been well reported, but the reporting was fed faulty info.
Re: Anyone here near Des Plaines IL? - Black - 07-24-2009
I think, considering the extent of the outage, it was pretty good that it only took them two weeks to restore service.
Re: Anyone here near Des Plaines IL? - AAA - 07-24-2009
Yes, two weeks to restore a small but measurable percentage of their overall customers' service given a disaster that they showed no forethought in spending the money to prevent is noteworthy.
Legislation BECAUSE of their shortsightedness in this one catastrophe changed how all RBOCs had to design their network thereafter. Now we will not have to be thankful for any future grace (or luck).
Re: Anyone here near Des Plaines IL? - Racer X - 07-24-2009
AAA wrote:
again. I was there. 'some time again...' that is not entirely forthright.
Might have been well reported, but the reporting was fed faulty info.
remember when reporters did their own intelligence and fact finding? And were OH SO HAPPY to report contrary info from the businesses' and officials' mouthpieces?
Re: Anyone here near Des Plaines IL? - Black - 07-24-2009
Hmm . . . the article said that all of the service was restored after two weeks, not just a percentage. Maybe the article's inaccurate.
Re: Anyone here near Des Plaines IL? - Black - 07-24-2009
So, Mr, Fritz, did you solve the mystery?
Kind of odd to see what I guess is my "home town" in a forum subject line (I was two when we moved back to the city.)
Re: Anyone here near Des Plaines IL? - ztirffritz - 07-24-2009
yeah, the UPS that the router was plugged into died (catastrophic failure apparently) but there was no way for me to know that from 2000 miles away. I knew that it had to be a power issue, but I was helpless to do anything about it because it took down both lines. I had to call a colleague in to fix it after hours. I'm not sure how bad it is but I'm guessing that I'll need to at least order a new UPS in the morning.