[SLL] Nationwide Internet: melting down?
Brian Lane
bcl at brianlane.com
Fri Aug 10 15:21:52 PDT 2007
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Bill Campbell wrote:
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> I would be very uncomfortable with Comcast for any mission-critical service
> as they did very poorly in last December's wind storm. On Mercer Island,
> the power was out for 7 days here, but our QWest phones and T1 service
> never failed (nor did my 3kw Honda generator which kept all our systems up
> and running). Comcast service went down with the power, and wasn't
> restored in many places for about a week after the power was back on.
>
> I knew many people who were without Comcast cable for about two weeks.
Ouch! we were w/o power for 4 days, Wave came back up with the power.
Brian
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