lowrider69
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- Aug 26, 2004
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How long did the outages last?
Lets say that the cable company was replacing an amplifier on the main line, that would take about 10 - 15 minutes.
On a lot of the amps, there are 4 bolts holding it in. Use a nut driver or a socket and ratchet to take the bolts out, pull the amp out of the housing, move the jumpers from the old amp to the new amp, put new amp in place.
But if the company is replacing a section of truck line, that can take a little while to do.
Replace a tap on the main line, that takes like 15 - 20 seconds. Couple of bolts hold the tap in. Take those bolts out, pop the old tap out of the housing, put the new tap in place, simple. I use to carry spare taps with me all the time. If one had some broken ports, just swap it out with a new tap.
This is a tap
The main line goes in and out through the bottom, or the sides.
I would do a tracert and there were issues down the line and I would call them, I would post the reports on their forums. It got old like I said.
Anyway, I'm familiar with taps, amplifiers, etc...thanks for the info though. Some days in that two week span their network would be down for a full day here a half day there, other days their DNS servers weren't resolving or were slow as shit. Actually, their DNS servers were always having random issues all year round from what I recall, I just switched to a level 3 DNS server and fixed that problem. As mentioned their shit wasn't contained to just those two weeks, there were minor outages throughout the year, every year I was there. It wasn't reliable as far as i'm concerned.