Re: Fiber cut in SF area

[Tony Rall <trall444 () gmail com>]

Roy wrote:
> JC Dill wrote:
>   
> > I'm pretty sure the WISPs in the Santa Cruz and Gilroy/Morgan Hill
> > areas were all also taken offline due to the fiber cut.  (Roy, can you
> > verify, for south county?)  Anyone in those areas who relied on a WISP
> > as a backup to their fiber/copper link found that their "redundant"
> > system wasn't really redundant after all.
> >     
> It based on where the WISP fiber feed was located but in general they
> were all down.  There were some special edge cases that stayed up fed
> from distant mountain tops.
>
> It didn't seem to matter who your upstream ISP was, they were all gone.
>   

The little residential wireless provider I use (http://surfnetc.com/) in 
Santa Cruz county stayed up the whole time.  I was surprised.  (Looks 
like their uplink is via pnap (Internap).)

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Tony Rall