[79727] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New Outage Hits Comcast Subscribers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter John Hill)
Thu Apr 14 15:08:22 2005
In-Reply-To: <1113505178.7291.11.camel@blue>
From: Peter John Hill <peterjhill@cmu.edu>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 12:04:38 -0700
To: NANGO <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Apr 14, 2005, at 11:59 AM, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> When Comcast goes down at home I hop in the car or walk a few blocks to
> one of many wifi outlets (some even free). Yes, that does make it
> difficult to check email or pay bills at 6am in my bath robe, but it
> works.
>
> Would I *like* to see Comcast 100% bulletproof? Sure. Do I *need* to
> see Comcast 100% bulletproof? No.
I just don't want my wife to complain to me that she could not check
her email because "the Internet was broken"
:-)