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AnonFTW
Anon
2013-Feb-5 10:04 am
Power outageI bet a huge chunk of that usage was due to the prolonged power outage. |
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NickD Premium Member join:2000-11-17 Princeton Junction, NJ |
NickD
Premium Member
2013-Feb-5 1:08 pm
I could imagine that the power outage would also have taken out the cell repeaters and Wi-Fi routers inside the Superdome. Everyone there must have been frantically trying to get information from the outside, placing a strain on the nearest tower. |
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Most cell repeaters have their own power trunking. |
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AnonFTW to NickD
Anon
2013-Feb-6 7:50 pm
to NickD
It didn't: » arstechnica.com/informat ··· er-bowl/said by Ars : When the lights went off at the Super Bowl during the big game's infamous power outage, not everything went offline.
The stadium-wide Wi-Fi network kept workingor at least it did in some areas and for part of the outage. But it was a very old-school technologya landline phonethat saved the day for Andrew Stern, a broadcast engineer for a San Francisco radio station.
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