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It’s not just you: Massive internet outage is sweeping the East Coast

backpacker said:
No it just sucks compared to cable. My office building actually has fiber. My actual office just hasn't got hooked up to it yet as our IT guy is currently trying not to keel over dead in the hospital. The FIOS was just something that once was bundled in to lower the phone bills so I am stuck with it until the powers that be springs for a new geek or the one we have recovers.
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I bet it has to do with the wiring in the building. That has to be ruled out before you can blame the ISP.
 
Did you try unplugging it and plugging it back in
 
ModerateGOP said:
I bet it has to do with the wiring in the building. That has to be ruled out before you can blame the ISP.
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Possibly. The basement of the WTC on 9/12 couldn't look worse than the basement of the work building as it has telcom wires going in a billion different directions, equipment some of which works and some of which doesn't, etc. I know whenever people come in to work down there, they curse and swear under their breath the entire time they are here. I think there is still a T1 box down there that is still active but doesn't service anybody that nobody can touch because the company that owns it went under and nobody is licensed to work on their equipment and nobody knows who may have acquired that asset. For a very long time, verizon wouldn't even install service in the building because they were afraid they would inadvertently cause a problem on the line of another company servicing the building and it would look like they sabotaged their business. When the fiber came, even more stuff went in down there.
 
backpacker said:
It is what it is and that be sucky service from Verizon whatever it is.
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If it runs over your phone line then it is DLS and yeah, DSL can be pretty bad as broadband goes... but that isn't FiOS.
 
jmotivator said:
If it runs over your phone line then it is DLS and yeah, DSL can be pretty bad as broadband goes... but that isn't FiOS.
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You may be correct. I don't really know what it is and the IT guy isn't expected to be out of the hospital until March 15 and will probably be fired a week after that if he isn't back because he is the only one who can make sense of any of his creations and there are already two people who cannot get into their computers because their passwords have expired and he apparently is the only person on the planet who knows the administrator password. I suspect as soon as they get it from him, he is history anyway. I know it is gray wire running to a black box with a bunch of green lights on it and from there it has a yellow wire running to my computer, a blue wire running to another computer to which the smart TV is connected to serve as a monitor or runs of the wifi from the black box either one in case I want to watch TV through my xfinity account. My IT guy likes to run new cables whenever he is doing something without removing old cables because he isn't really sure what the old cables actually connect so the building probably has at least 25 years worth of networking cables, phone system cables, and God only knows what else strung all over it. I think he is someone whose networking knowledge is circa 1992 and just wings it or has tech support remote in when something needs fixing he cannot figure out.
 
backpacker said:
You may be correct. I don't really know what it is and the IT guy isn't expected to be out of the hospital until March 15 and will probably be fired a week after that if he isn't back because he is the only one who can make sense of any of his creations and there are already two people who cannot get into their computers because their passwords have expired and he apparently is the only person on the planet who knows the administrator password. I suspect as soon as they get it from him, he is history anyway. I know it is gray wire running to a black box with a bunch of green lights on it and from there it has a yellow wire running to my computer, a blue wire running to another computer to which the smart TV is connected to serve as a monitor or runs of the wifi from the black box either one in case I want to watch TV through my xfinity account. My IT guy likes to run new cables whenever he is doing something without removing old cables because he isn't really sure what the old cables actually connect so the building probably has at least 25 years worth of networking cables, phone system cables, and God only knows what else strung all over it. I think he is someone whose networking knowledge is circa 1992 and just wings it or has tech support remote in when something needs fixing he cannot figure out.
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I am guessing the gray wire is a DSL line (does it plug into a port that looks like a phone jack?) and the color cables are Cat5 or Cat6 Gigabit Ethernet drops (where they plug in looks like a larger than normal phone jack).

Though you could just have a super cheap FiOS plan and all of your coworkers are streaming video all day long and eating up your bandwidth.
 
bmr528 said:
It is really amazing just how much the world depends on the internet.. ( including me )

I often wonder just what would happen if somehow a world wide outage ever occurred..

djl
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If we ever lost the Internet, we would just dig out the polyester leisure suits, slip on the platform shoes, and put some Bee Gees on the record player, while we tried to find those old checkbooks.
 
jmotivator said:
I am guessing the gray wire is a DSL line (does it plug into a port that looks like a phone jack?) and the color cables are Cat5 or Cat6 Gigabit Ethernet drops (where they plug in looks like a larger than normal phone jack).

Though you could just have a super cheap FiOS plan and all of your coworkers are streaming video all day long and eating up your bandwidth.
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It comes out of a box about the size of an electrical outlet behind a file cabinet. I really can't see the front of it. The streaming thing could be true as well since everybody knows the password to my wifi but the official company wifi's password to the one on the main computer network is known to very few who will not give it to anyone for "security reasons". My office is a makeshift office from an old storage room that was just thrown together. I am not in the building a lot--maybe 20 hours a week at most and usually less--so me being on it is not a priority. They mostly email/text/call me if it is not something that physically lands in my box, and I don't really work with all the programs on the server they use anyway. The only reason for me to be on it would be to goof off or access a customer database without having to say, "Hey, will you look up this number for me".
 
natsb said:
If we ever lost the Internet, we would just dig out the polyester leisure suits, slip on the platform shoes, and put some Bee Gees on the record player, while we tried to find those old checkbooks.
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ABBA, dude. Has to be The Dancing Queen.
 
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