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Yesterday's Internet Outage? Gunfire Related

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Comments on news posted 2007-08-21 12:10:09: While beavers are clearly a broadband menace, they've got nothing on random gunfire. Back in 2005, we noted how several users lost DSL connectivity due to "random gunfire to a aerial wire," according to news outlets in New Mexico. ..

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Kearnstd
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What about the Important Envriomental Issues?

one of the Tubes was punctured and Internet was leaking all over the place.....
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permalink · 2007-08-21 17:09:46 · Reply to this ·
stephencole

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Re: What about the Important Envriomental Issues?

said by Kearnstd:

one of the Tubes was punctured and Internet was leaking all over the place.....
:)
permalink · 2007-08-22 00:27:21 · Reply to this ·
Telukin
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2/3 of a mile of fiber affected?

From the Yahoo! article:

"The damage affected a large span of cable, more than two-thirds of a mile [1.1 km] long, near Cleveland, TeliaSonera said."

2/3 of a mile? That is isn't someone playing, that's a concerted effort to vandalise the cable.

The guy must have had a truck-load of cartridges to unload into that cable!
permalink · 2007-08-22 06:45:25 · Reply to this ·
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