Centurylink Internet Outage 10/1/21

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Originally Posted by DenverGP

Xfinity customer in littleton area here, no internet issues at all.

I'm going to be moving from colorado down to texas, and the area I'm looking at doesn't seem to be served by xfinity/comcast. I'm actually very sad, because although the price is high, my internet service has been almost perfect for the past 4 years with xfinity. Before that I had centurylink DSL and it had constant outages with very little help from support.

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Where you looking?
Comcast only does Houston metro down to Galveston-ish

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Originally Posted by 00tec

Where you looking?
Comcast only does Houston metro down to Galveston-ish

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i'll be in the dallas metro area (near McKinney)

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Originally Posted by ChickNorris

Now they said everything inside is gtg but they believe squirrels damaged the outside line. As if I didn't already dislike squirrels, I have a new reason.

That crew will be here in an hour. Im actually pretty happy with how quickly they're handling the service calls.

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Somewhat off topic, but the joy of wiring made after 2010. Insulation often includes soy and is edible.

So for those people with squirrel problems, remember... buy used vehicles, 2009 or earlier. Replacement wiring, also soy.

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Originally Posted by FoxtArt

Somewhat off topic, but the joy of wiring made after 2010. Insulation often includes soy and is edible.

So for those people with squirrel problems, remember... buy used vehicles, 2009 or earlier. Replacement wiring, also soy.

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Or just wire it yourself with known good silicone/non-soy wire.

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Originally Posted by DenverGP

i'll be in the dallas metro area (near McKinney)

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Drove through there today. Discovered a Scheels right down the road.
I'm currently hanging out in Sherman. The area around McKinney is blowing up.

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Originally Posted by 00tec

Drove through there today. Discovered a Scheels right down the road.
I'm currently hanging out in Sherman. The area around McKinney is blowing up.

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What are your thoughts on the Sherman area? We have researched a few properties around there, but haven't made a physical visit yet.

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Originally Posted by crays

What are your thoughts on the Sherman area? We have researched a few properties around there, but haven't made a physical visit yet.

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For me, it's too close to family. (I have a 3hr drive rule)
Many of the roads out here have been under construction for a while, so it's a bit of a shitshow, but no more than other areas. A lot of the population out here seems to be older, so there are some slow cars on the road.
Geographically, it's pretty cool. Proximity to Lake Texoma and the DFW metro is a plus. They have these big plants called trees everywhere, kinda nice.
As with many smaller cities in Texas, religion is everywhere.

BPS Outfitters between Sherman and Denison is pretty legit. Silencershop kiosk, good people, and they make custom holsters in store.

Well, I work for CenturyLink/Lumen, in the Network Operations Center (NOC), and we deal with fiber cuts daily, worldwide. Yes, squirrels love to chew up aerial cables. Rednecks like to shoot them, and the splice cans, too. Drunks also seem to have an affinity for crashing into poles. Then there's storms......Just some of the aerial cable woes.

The biggest underground cable enemy is the underground horizontal boring machines installing new ducts & cables. Then there's highway and RR construction - digging holes, boring holes for light pole footings, driving steel pilings, bridge repairs/rebuilds, flooding, landslides, wildfires, it goes on and on. Oh, farmers and their backhoes too.

What most people don't know is that there's MANY companies that have fiber in the ground and in the air, and there's a huge amount of fiber leasing amongst the various carriers. We have cable between A and Z, and you don't? Lease fibers from us, and run your traffic over them as you wish. It's VERY common.

So, your woes with Lumen, or any other carrier, might be on their cable, with their responsibility to fix it - or it might not. The telecom world is very complex. I can't WAIT to retire.....

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Originally Posted by 00tec

Drove through there today. Discovered a Scheels right down the road.
I'm currently hanging out in Sherman. The area around McKinney is blowing up.

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How long will you be there? Coming back home through Houston maybe as soon as the end of this week.

Resolved. Had I listened to the first phone guy... it would've taken days if not a week. Glad that wasn't the way of it & appreciate the folks who work more than the basic script.