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Old 03-10-2006, 01:25 PM
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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.
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Old 03-10-2006, 01:31 PM
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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
it got me, from 2pm till 10pm.
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Old 03-10-2006, 01:33 PM
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noting for me.. going strong all day.. but I am in rancho.. vandals out here have bigger fish to fry then Intraweb connections
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Originally Posted by sonicsuby
Single points of failure FTW!
he said Comcast.. does this surprise you ?
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Originally Posted by Mr. Xevious
he said Comcast.. does this surprise you ?
no I guess not :rotfl:

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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Out here in Roseville, by the Galleria... Worked all day for me!
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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!"?
It had to be an inside job, or at least a former employee.

They broke into a locked box, found the specific cable, and cut it....
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Winfirst fiber internet/phone and direcTV for teh w1narz.
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Originally Posted by R4ND0M_AX3
Winfirst fiber internet/phone and direcTV for teh w1narz.

not when you got water in your fiber !
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not when you got water in your fiber !
mmm. that's worse than copper why?
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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 ...
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