Subj : Re: A-Net BBS Offline Due to Network Issues
To   : StingRay
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Thu Jun 11 2026 07:45 am

-=> StingRay wrote to paulie420 <=-

 St> Thank you, Paulie!! There was a HUGE area-wide AT&T outage in my area.
 St> We lost fiber internet and cell phone service, too. I assume their
 St> backhaul went out since we also lost cell coverage.

 I've wanted to go AT&T fiber to get symmetric service, but we're all
 fed from overhead poles. I'm on a dead-end cul de sac, and power poles
 alternate sides of the street.

 Walking my dog yesterday, I saw 2 fiber house runs on my block knocked
 down by a moving truck - when you have to cross a street and run
 diagonally to get to the house, the amount of sag in the cable makes it
 susceptible to being snagged by high trucks.

 AT&T finally solved my next-door neighbor's recurring cable cuts by
 throwing the AT&T fiber over the Comcast cable on the pole, giving it
 about a foot more height running to the house. It's all fine until
 friction wears through the cable jacket, but that'll be someone else's
 problem.




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