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There was a fiber cut last year near Chicago. It was near a railroad so a bunch of authorizations were required and it took about three days to complete the wor
by cactusplant7374 4y ago
There was a fiber cut last year near Chicago. It was near a railroad so a bunch of authorizations were required and it took about three days to complete the work. My parents live in a rural area that has fiber but didn't have internet because the local ISP didn't have any redundancy.
We switched from microwave antenna which has its own issues to fiber and my dad is thinking, "Well, you said this would be better." You can blame the local ISP, but am I wrong to think that it's hard for a rural ISP providing fiber to afford redundancy?
- thinkindie 4y agothis could have happened to the microwave antenna anyway - the other side of your antenna is most probably connected with a fiber cable, which can also be cut.
- Am4TIfIsER0ppos 4y agoClearly the internet should be wireless all the way to the server which even has wireless power. No outages(!)
- cactusplant7374 4y agoThe previous outages with the microwave antenna were weather related. Now the problems are much more interesting. :)
- zrail 4y agoA rural ISP might not even have the possibility of redundancy. There might be just one backbone fiber within reasonable distance. For example, there's a local rural fiber ISP near me that had to invest quite a lot into digging a fiber trench several miles to the nearest backbone connection before they even got off the ground.