We lost connectivity to a number of customers in the Los
Angeles and Long beach area and the local AM radio news
stations are talking about some major telephone issues
regarding Verizon.
Anyone have more information? It seems to have started
around 02:30 local time this morning.
We lost connectivity (WAN/Internet/POTS) to our Long Beach site at
around 2:27 AM PDT today. Several news agencies are reporting it on the
web (hooray news.google.com), citing "mechanical glitches" or bad
weather. I've also heard rumors of a power outage, though I find those
highly suspect. Choose your villan, I guess.
northern_california/12933014.htm
http://www.nbc4.tv/news/5115425/detail.html
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=local&id=3546999
Jason "Feren" Olsen Senior Network Engineer DeVry, Inc
Em: jolsen@devry.com Ph: 630-645-1607 One Tower Lane
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IL 60181
Olsen, Jason wrote:
Anyone have more information? It seems to have started around 02:30 local time this morning.
We lost connectivity (WAN/Internet/POTS) to our Long Beach site at
around 2:27 AM PDT today. Several news agencies are reporting it on the
web (hooray news.google.com), citing "mechanical glitches" or bad
weather.
Bad weather could definitely be a factor.
Southern Cali electric utilities are notoriously unreliable during bad weather, especially up in my neck of the woods. It's been raining pretty steadily here for the past two days; I drove 150 miles from Apple Valley to northeast San Diego this morning and it was even raining down here in SD -- may still be raining now, I just haven't looked outside. I even heard a radio report that a funnel cloud touched down in the foothills outside Los Angeles; I forget exactly where. (That doesn't happen very often around here.)
While weather in Southern California may affect your electricity,
it has only a minor effect in the Long Beach area. Monday evening's
storm was fairly mild with winds under 10 MPH and less than a half
an inch of rain overnight. Not what I would consider a heavy storm.
Rains do cause telco data problems. When I had dial-up, my maximum
rate dropeed from about 45K to 37Kbps during and for a day or two
following rain.
Telephone service is beginning to be restored in the Long Beach
area but is still sporadic.
Around 2:20 or 2:30 a.m., I was awoken by my clock radio with
three or more sets of soft buzzing noises--as though a radio
station went silent. I checked my cordless phone and had
dialtone, then went back to sleep. Is there any correlation?
matthew black
e-mail postmaster
california state university, long beach
Matthew Black wrote:
While weather in Southern California may affect your electricity,
...It does, and it's more of an electric utility problem than a weather problem. 
it has only a minor effect in the Long Beach area. Monday evening's
storm was fairly mild with winds under 10 MPH and less than a half
an inch of rain overnight. Not what I would consider a heavy storm.
Yeah, I figured the heavy winds might have more to do with any possible outages than the rain did. Obviously, though, not a big issue in Long Beach...
Rains do cause telco data problems. When I had dial-up, my maximum
rate dropeed from about 45K to 37Kbps during and for a day or two
following rain.
*nod* but that's 56K dialup, which is a crapshoot anyhow. I'd be more interested in finding out if there were any weather-related issues with services that are normally more stable than dialup.
Around 2:20 or 2:30 a.m., I was awoken by my clock radio with
three or more sets of soft buzzing noises--as though a radio
station went silent. I checked my cordless phone and had
dialtone, then went back to sleep. Is there any correlation?
I guess my posting wasn't clear. The radio portion of my
clock radio was completely off. The clock was working and the
alarm was set for 5:50 a.m. to turn on the radio.
My cordless phone sits adjacent to the clock radio. The cordless
phone near my bed is an extension sitting in its charging base
but it is not the base telephone station which is located in
another room and plugged into a POTS line.
During the night, my radio is normally silent. Maybe the noises
that I heard around 2:30 a.m. came from the cordless phone
instead of the clock radio. I just thought it was a conicidence
that I hear strange noises around the same time my local phone
company experiences a major outage.
matthew black
california state university, long beach