On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 09:38:21AM -0600, Carl wrote: > There was a power line failure near Maclead trail and 36ave SE. I guess > a couple of people were injured from power lines falling.
Ouch... I hope that they are OK. Article say not critical but those sound like serious injuries. > > It knocked out power and cable to a bunch of homes. I think Shaw has a > cable station near there that was hit by the power outage. > > I was without phone and Internet for quite a few hours. So a 'expected' problem (power outage) causes massive failure of system. Isn't Shaw mandated to provide a usable '911' service, even with problems? I worked on a bid for VoIP service a few years ago and they wanted the ATA to continue working for 2 hours without power - not much good if the IP connection is dead. Simon. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
