Comcast outage across the midwest apparently
its gonna be a long day *sigh*
Comcast please fix your shit so I don't have to explain to another customer that the issue is not on our end
thanks 😩
so the Comcast outage today was related to major fibre cuts?
at least one in North Carolina
"Field Operations dispatched to the estimated failure location and upon arrival was advised by local law enforcement there was a truck that struck a utility pole, which then fell across the street and struck another pole, which then tore down the aerial fiber lines. In addition to the fiber lines being down, live power lines are down as well."
https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2018-June/011495.html
@staticsafe so a one in a million truck accident can shut off internet for a lot of people
@KitRedgrave decentralize alreadyyyyyy
@modgethanc it kind of is already but it could be more so.
if it was entirely centralized then we'd be 100% screwed forever instead of just inconvenienced while everyone reroutes around the damage
@KitRedgrave it can yeah, though in this case it might have been multiple accidents/incidents of fibre damage