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| lilshawn:
everything in our subdivision is buried. there is not a pole in the whole area. it makes it a real pain in the butt when something goes wrong. I have a bonded ADSL internet service of 100 megabit/second. As such, I have 2 telephone lines that run into one modem. each run supplies about 50 to 75 megabit. the combonation of the lines gives me my total speed. I was experiencing slow speeds about 2 weeks ago. I didn't think much of it since the service kinda goes up and down a bit based on load. was still about 70 something megabit so i didn't look too much into it other than occasionally running a speed test. after 3 days, I investigated the network a litte more into the cause of the issue. I have an older system taking care of my firewall for the rest of the network, so I thought maybe I had an issue there. what had actually happened was one of my lines got damaged about 12 days prior...the other line just took up the slack. I had a technician from the telecom come down with 2 others and spend probably a good 2 days diagnosing and repairing the issue. It was difficult since my line to the box across the street and the line to the CO at the corner of our subdivision was all buried... so they can't just follow the line like they can when it's on the pole. the buried line zig zags through the subdivision to get to the CO at basically the opposite corner of the subdivision. Had the line been old school and hanging on the pole, even if the issue was the same, it would have only taken a few hours to find and fix. Burying things looks nice, but makes it a pain in the assycakes if something goes wrong. |
| ChadTower:
--- Quote from: dkersten on June 16, 2016, 10:06:02 am ---Can't transmit electricity over fiber optic... Around here all the power is up on poles and all the telecom is buried.. --- End quote --- Any given scrapper only cuts the live power lines once. It's the telecom lines that they steal. Burying is also a major pain in the ass if your region is covered in snow half the year. Makes it that much harder to repair anything. |
| Howard_Casto:
Some of the stupider one steal power around here, but it doesn't happen as often. Like I said, somebody gets killed every year. Last month they hit one of the sealed coal mines where people died due to methane. Real rouge scholars these copper thieves. |
| pbj:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on June 17, 2016, 01:57:23 am ---Real rouge scholars --- End quote --- Wow. Just wow. :) |
| ChadTower:
--- Quote from: pbj on June 17, 2016, 09:31:25 am --- --- Quote from: Howard_Casto on June 17, 2016, 01:57:23 am ---Real rouge scholars --- End quote --- Wow. Just wow. :) --- End quote --- Hey, if you're suffocating, you tend to turn a bit reddish in the face... |
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