MysticGogeta
The Robot Devil
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League City, TX
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| Don't like Comcast much but
"Underground vaults that freeze solid pose a real challenge when it comes to maintenance, fiber or otherwise.”
I could see where this is a problem when your equipment is underground and you have a foot of snow over it.
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cdru
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join:2003-05-14
Fort Wayne, IN | Telcos, water, sewer, and any other utilities that have had manholes haven't had problems managing winter maintenance for decades. |
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JerryTimes
join:2002-01-09
Roseville, MI | You wanna bet? |
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cdru
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join:2003-05-14
Fort Wayne, IN
| Let me rephrase that. Utilities that have manholes have had them for decades and somehow manage to make them work. I'm not saying that they don't have problems, but rather they just deal with them and move on. There isn't anything super special that only applies to Comcast and their underground vaults here. |
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jt4
@comcast.net | reply to cdru
sounds like you have never done this work before. you should try it then post you commet and we will see what you say. i bet it would be a little different |
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cdru
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join:2003-05-14
Fort Wayne, IN
| said by jt4 :
sounds like you have never done this work before. you should try it then post you commet and we will see what you say. i bet it would be a little different No I've never done maintenance in a manhole. But I have done construction type work in winter so I know that the ground gets hard, water freezes, and things get frozen shut. I do also have decent critical thinking abilities so I can apply my limited knowledge to a more broader sense. Let me go over it slowly for you...
Q. Do other utilities use manholes, vaults, or other underground facilities?
A. Yes.
Q. Do other utilities use said facilities in winter in locations that freeze?
A. Yes.
Q. Have winters been around for more then a year or two?
A. Yes.
Q. Do other utilities continue to install underground facilities, despite having to put up with freezing weather year after year?
A. Yes.
I never said that winter maintenance wasn't an issue, or that winter weather wasn't a challenge. All I was saying is that other utilities seem to manage the problems, so can Comcast. But I welcome anyone else that wants to chime in betting me, challenging me, or just proclaiming that I have no fricking idea what I'm talking about. |
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Nerdtalker
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Tucson, AZ
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It's funny how something like fiber, which seems impervious to just about anything, can react so adversely to a piece of ice stressing it or causing microbends which attenuate the signal to just about nothing.
Throw a junction box like that underground, add water, add winter, and you're in for some fun.
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