One of my favourite outages was my TV cable - I was sat in a government NOC and called them during lunch. Was lucky I had a phone that had a loudspeaker (was l

One of my favourite outages was my TV cable - I was sat in a government NOC and called them during lunch. Was lucky I had a phone that had a loudspeaker (was late 90's) and was able to share the excuse for poor intermittent reception - "Sir, your signal is poor as you live on a hill and the it has problems going up hill thru the cable". Another one around same time same government building and was running Videoconferencing over 2Mbps circuits. Would get intermittent glitches - turned out the Q bearer for the line comming in was old and whilst other networking was fine running over that and the odd few bits messed up on networking could be retransmitted alas TCP/IP, for video, such hits stood out. Replaced that and worked lovely. But weather related issue for networking would always be the go to, often heavy rain would mess up some microwave link or CAB unit and cause issues. Another favourite was TZ spikes and had issue which saw call congestion around 3pm every day in the UK on these batch of modems - turned out that was when America woke up and would see a surge in calls, saturating/spiking the capacity for the telco provider and artificially capping our incoming call lines before we hit our capacity. Then the seasonal ones like birds nesting or tree's growing or a tree ok but when the wind was north west over a certain speed it would blip between the microwave link - microwave links can be so much fun for the gotcha issues that can happen.