[155651] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Comcast vs. Verizon for repair methodologies
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Mon Aug 20 16:31:59 2012
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <20120820202537.GA67910@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 16:31:23 -0400
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Aug 20, 2012, at 16:25 , Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> wrote:
> In a message written on Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 04:12:22PM -0400, Patrick =
W. Gilmore wrote:
>> The story: A piece of underground cable went bad. The techs didn't =
pull new underground cable. They decided it was better to do it "arial" =
(if you can call 2 feet "arial"). They took apart the two pedestals on =
either side of the break and ran a new strand of RG6 (yes, the same =
stuff you use inside your home, not the outside-plant rated stuff) tied =
to trees with rope.
>=20
> Why is that cable still in place?
>=20
> That's a hint, not really a question. :)
Because VZ LTE, while nice in general, is not good enough for Jezzibell =
to use all day for a week. :)
--=20
TTFN,
patrick
