"It's not the ISP's fault!"

Started by dlots, June 30, 2016, 07:02:06 AM

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dlots

June 30, 2016, 07:02:06 AM
We had a site go down, did a little digging, called the ISP who was VERY sure it wasn't there fault, all of their stuff looked good and was working, so they wouldn't send anyone out to look at it.  So we send out a feild tech, once the tech gets there he says it's the ISP's issue... apprently there was a car wrapped around the ISP's junction box.

icecream-guy

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June 30, 2016, 07:07:20 AM
We got a site going up and down, up and down,  it's not the ISP's fault. found out it's emergency utility work going on......  for the past three days....
:professorcat:

My Moral Fibers have been cut.

deanwebb

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June 30, 2016, 07:14:13 AM
SCI-FI MOVIE PLOT:

Arch-villain takes over controls of all the backhoes around the world. Then, at precisely the same moment globally, he has the backhoes sever telecom links at all the critical junctions: severs major trunk lines, local lines to telcos, primary and backup at major firms, everything. Everything from cellular to big data to home security systems goes dark. The only one he can't get to is North Korea, for three reasons:

1. No Internet there.
2. No *backhoes* there.
3. THAT IS WHO HE IS WORKING FOR DUN DUN DUNNNN!

Our heroes are a group of networkers who are doing a weekend maintenance together when everything goes out. They work tirelessly to turn things off and on again, in a desperate struggle to get the lights back on.

The working title of the film is "Bros Before Backhoes".
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
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dlots

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June 30, 2016, 07:52:13 AM
This is why heavy equipment shouldn't be part of the internet of things!!!

Nerm

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June 30, 2016, 08:21:29 AM
Quote from: deanwebb on June 30, 2016, 07:14:13 AM
SCI-FI MOVIE PLOT:

Arch-villain takes over controls of all the backhoes around the world. Then, at precisely the same moment globally, he has the backhoes sever telecom links at all the critical junctions: severs major trunk lines, local lines to telcos, primary and backup at major firms, everything. Everything from cellular to big data to home security systems goes dark. The only one he can't get to is North Korea, for three reasons:

1. No Internet there.
2. No *backhoes* there.
3. THAT IS WHO HE IS WORKING FOR DUN DUN DUNNNN!

Our heroes are a group of networkers who are doing a weekend maintenance together when everything goes out. They work tirelessly to turn things off and on again, in a desperate struggle to get the lights back on.

The working title of the film is "Bros Before Backhoes".

Is it sad that this sounds like something I would watch? lol

Dieselboy

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July 01, 2016, 12:04:05 AM
Quote from: dlots on June 30, 2016, 07:02:06 AM
he says it's the ISP's issue... apprently there was a car wrapped around the ISP's junction box.

What went down? I guess only the customer facing interface went down hence the ISP saw it as a customer issue?

When I first came to Australia, the IT support company I worked for had a call come in where a bunch of stuff had gone down. Specifically, this "stuff" controlled traffic light stop signals and none of them were working. Turned out a taxi had crashed through the box next to the road / traffic signals and there was bits of Cisco equipment over the road. There was a photo sent throug the guy owning the case. Was a chuckle :)
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