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There is a legendary tale of a how a random delivery truck took down a whole popular MMO. The MMO company had a issue with their own physical logistics, and ha
by speeder 13y ago
There is a legendary tale of a how a random delivery truck took down a whole popular MMO.
The MMO company had a issue with their own physical logistics, and had to put their login server across the street in another building.
They put special antennas between the two buildings, to keep the thing running, and it worked great, until one day, it didn't.
After a while trying to figure what was going on, they noticed that a huge delivery truck parked illegally (the place where it parked was illegal to anyone park), and the place he choose made the bulk of the truck metal stay right between the two antennas...
EDIT: Also when internet was still dial-up, one delivery truck ignoring height limits managed to cut all phone cables near my town biggest ISP, leaving the entire city without internet. I did not appreciated it...
- DrStalker 13y agoI've heard of a similar issue with a wireless data link across a river that would cut out once or twice a day, but not everyday, and no one could figure out why. The answer only came after a few weeks of monitoring and an ametuer fisherman saying "hey, those are all high tide times!" at which point they realise that high tide was causing the mast of a docked boat to rise up enough to interfere, and that the boat was not always in its dock which is why some days were fine.
- jlgaddis 13y agoThis is typically off-topic but you found that case interesting you might also enjoy reading "The case of the 500-mile e-mail": http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html