[85885] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon outage in Southern California?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Sobol)
Tue Oct 18 16:19:17 2005
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 13:16:33 -0700
From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
To: Matthew Black <black@csulb.edu>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <web-6351791@remus.csulb.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Matthew Black wrote:
> While weather in Southern California may affect your electricity,
...It does, and it's more of an electric utility problem than a weather
problem. :P
> it has only a minor effect in the Long Beach area. Monday evening's
> storm was fairly mild with winds under 10 MPH and less than a half
> an inch of rain overnight. Not what I would consider a heavy storm.
Yeah, I figured the heavy winds might have more to do with any possible
outages than the rain did. Obviously, though, not a big issue in Long Beach...
> Rains do cause telco data problems. When I had dial-up, my maximum
> rate dropeed from about 45K to 37Kbps during and for a day or two
> following rain.
*nod* but that's 56K dialup, which is a crapshoot anyhow. I'd be more
interested in finding out if there were any weather-related issues with
services that are normally more stable than dialup.
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