Who else lost their Comcast Internet/Cable yesterday?
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Who else lost their Comcast Internet/Cable yesterday?
If you did, aparently it was a vandal who cut the "achiles heel" fiber optic line causing over 100,000 people to loose cable yesterday after 2pm 
Originally Posted by sacbee
Vandalism interrupts Comcast service
A vandal cut through the "Achilles' heel" of Comcast cable's Internet and video service in the Sacramento area Thursday.
A vandal cut through the "Achilles' heel" of Comcast cable's Internet and video service in the Sacramento area Thursday.
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Originally Posted by Kostamojen
If you did, aparently it was a vandal who cut the "achiles heel" fiber optic line causing over 100,000 people to loose cable yesterday after 2pm
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Originally Posted by Mr. Xevious
he said Comcast.. does this surprise you ?
You gotta wonder though, what kind of vandal goes out and is like "hmm, I'm going to chop the comcast fibre line!"?
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Originally Posted by sonicsuby
You gotta wonder though, what kind of vandal goes out and is like "hmm, I'm going to chop the comcast fibre line!"?
They broke into a locked box, found the specific cable, and cut it....
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old joke of when we used to call surewest when there was problems at Matt's house
"There seems to be water in the fiber connections, we will send out a tech to dry it out"
serious ...
"There seems to be water in the fiber connections, we will send out a tech to dry it out"
serious ...