Thursday, June 29, 2017
"Vandals" disrupt cable service for 60,000 households
From NBC:
About 60,000 Spectrum customers in Queens were without cable or internet on Monday after vandals cut a fiber optic cable serving four major hubs, according to the cable company and the borough's president.
Spectrum was working to restore cable, internet and phone services to thousands of customers more than 15 hours after vandals cut the fiber optic cable, Queens Borough President Melinda Katz said. It had been restored by late in the evening, the cable company said early Tuesday.
Police have not released information about their investigation into the destruction of the fiber optic cable.
The outage began around 2 a.m. Monday and spread across central Queens. No other borough appeared to be affected. By around 11 p.m. Monday, it still wasn't fully restored.
14 comments:
I always have a backup for situations such as this.
This was quite the horrific event!
There were hours and hours of silence without any information from the outside world.
I actually had to interact with my significant other, and in a meaningful way.
I cannot ever remember such a feeling of uneasiness, vulnerability and fear, ever.
Thank goodness things are back to normal.
Had this problem not been resolved in a timely manner, I do not know what may have happened...
These comments would be funny if it weren't for the fact that the vandalism was caused by union thugs on strike.
Vandals ?
Its likely their own striking people behaving like pissed off fire ants.
It was their own Local International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers union who supported Clinton 1 Obama and Clinton II
It was Clintons Telecommunication Act (deregulation)that screwed them by allowing big gorilla Spectrum to purchase Time Warner Cable and Obamacare WORSE by quadrupling healthcare costs.
What's the matter ? Poor babys don't being "rewarded" and giving up some benefits to pay with what they asked for ?
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-clinton-idUSKCN0XA1S1
with all the money that they charge their customers, some of it should go towards security at their hub.
"This was quite the horrific event!
There were hours and hours of silence without any information from the outside world.
I actually had to interact with my significant other, and in a meaningful way.
I cannot ever remember such a feeling of uneasiness, vulnerability and fear, ever.
Thank goodness things are back to normal.
Had this problem not been resolved in a timely manner, I do not know what may have happened..."
Not funny to someone who runs a business and needs connectivity to take credit cards...
I'm really curious who did it. I wish we could have choices other than two crappy internet companies where I live.
Connectivity has become integral part of our lives weather we like or not. This is a sad state of the security that is provided for important infrastructure.
This blood sucking company will now fine$$ their clients (spectrum users) when they announce security will be put in place.
I wonder if this was done by striking union members, angry customers, or thieves looking to steal wiring to resell?
>by allowing big gorilla Spectrum to purchase Time Warner Cable
Spectrum is actually a lot smaller than Time Warner. They leveraged themselves to the hilt to buy a bigger fish, and now they're cutting costs where ever they can to make up for it.
> I wish we could have choices other than two crappy internet companies where I live.
Sadly, a decade ago the Supreme Court ruled that two companies is enough competition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Cable_%26_Telecommunications_Ass%27n_v._Brand_X_Internet_Services
georgetheatheist said...
"I always have a backup for situations such as this."
George;
As do I.
I felt it was not at a level of concern to unlock the fully stocked underground bunker.
Although I almost started warming up the tubes of my 30-meter ham radio.
As for the angry business owner, accept cash only for a few days and put it into your pocket.
I normally have three random days per month where the credit card processing machines are not working, and it is a "CASH ONLY DAY"!
Please do not tell the Internal Revenue Service...
"I wish we could have choices other than two crappy internet companies where I live"
Everybody does have a choice.
All the new movies on cable 7 FIOS suck, forget about the news as well so no need to pay near $200 a month for this shit.
1- Don't agree to any contracts when they tell you you will get "discounts" and free stuff for upgrading.
Put up a rooftop HDTV antenna on the roof, attic or even window antenna and get over the air broadcast. Then add $25 DSL to your phone line.
--Then give them back the converter box and tell them to go F_ themselves.
Lots of great stuff on over the air broadcast because you get all the Sub channels the cable company's filter out and make you buy back. Antenna TV, Decades, ION, Me-TV, NYC-TV. Archie Bunker, New Movies, Old monster movies.
The refresh rates and picture is great because it not all compressed and watered down.
People don’t understand HD TV antenna are the 1/15 size of of the old VHF roof top antennas because Broadcast TV is now high band UHF
Study:
http://yourfreedtv.com/BigApple/
""Not funny to someone who runs a business and needs connectivity to take credit cards""
Not true ALL of those company's that run credit cards have dial up numbers. Plug your modem port into a phone line, or did Warner/Spectrum monopolize and take over the landlines also ?
You can also tether a cellphone as a dial up modem with the USB cable. You only need 33KBS minimum to run a card.
Cut the cord yourself like I did and save thousands of $$$ per year !
The cost of this shit after all the taxes and surcharges is coming close to a lease on a brand new car.
I have a T-Mobile cellphone, costs me 10 cents a minute + $3 a month, the minutes rollover too. You buy the $10 refill cards in the grocery stores. Anybody who talks more then 100 minutes a month talks to much or more then 300meg data a month has a big problem.
Yes cut the cord indeed !!
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