May 22 2008
Cable Outage
Yesterday was rather interesting around here. Charter is the only cable company in the area and all of their services went out. Internet, TV, and Telephone. All three went down for four hours or more. Of course it wasn’t in the middle of the night when no one would notice… it was in late morning-early afternoon.
It wasn’t just in my town either. I heard it affected people more than an hours drive from here. A neighbor went up to the local office to pay her bill and she reported that their computers were down. It’s hard to say exactly what happened, but it must have been pretty bad.
The last big outage in the area took place several months ago when a major router in or near Chicago died, and that took quite a long time to replace.
Happens here regularly. Charter always has problems, it seems. It especially happens during or after thunderstorms. The equipment here I think is too old 😉