On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 03:10:47PM -0700, David Brewerton wrote: > The two incidents were unrelated as far as I heard. I spoke to a Shaw > representative during the outage and he said it covered all of Southern > Alberta. I doubt that Shaw would have so much running through a single above > ground wire that it could knock out half of the province. My son called me > when the cable and internet shut down but the phones (ours is through Shaw) > continued. A couple of hours later we had cable back but the phones died > until after midnight. I'm not sure when internet came back as I'd gone to bed > by then. >
Like I described my first awareness of the internet problem was poor/slow connection, after rebooting I was unable to get an IP from the network. It could be that part of their internet infrastucture is not UPS'ed and was lost during the power outage..... which is bad planning. Further reading around their VoIP tax has given me the impression that Shaw Digital phone is not a true VoIP service, they use same cable but not 'over IP'. As far as I'm concerned, the fact that the phone system went down at all is pretty bad. 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
