#internet

Texas appears to be the hardest-hit state, with a significant number of reports coming from the Dallas area, including Frisco and Grand Prairie. Some users also reported disruptions to AT&T's cellular internet services.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/att-internet-outage-update-hundreds-report-fiber-and-broadband-services-down-texas-louisiana-affected-101788804996998.html

Frontier = fiber-optic internet, TV/streaming, and phone service, mainly for residential/small business, historically stronger in certain regional/rural fiber buildouts.
• Verizon = wireless service (phones, tablets) plus its own home internet (Fios fiber, 5G Home Internet), historically stronger nationwide, especially for mobile.
• Now combined: Since the acquisition, Verizon has been bundling the two — for example, offers combining Frontier fiber internet with Verizon mobile plans, like free months of fiber plus discounted phone lines.

AT&T sent me an email that I will be receiving a $0.33 credit for multi-hour internet outage earlier this week. AT&T, in the kindness of their heart, rounded up to make sure I was fully compensated for the outage. And to make it even better, I only have to wait a couple of billing cycles for me to receive it! What a great program!

Verizon Fios smells blood in the water. Customers will be jumping as this rolls out in Brookhaven.

https://greaterlongisland.com/brookhaven-verizon-fios-cable-franchise-agreement/

So the Phoenix Sky Harbor site completely lost internet for more than 24 hrs. Had to bring Starlink terminals in order to keep the shop floor running. Anyone know what the heck happened?

https://youtu.be/3nUeYvUaZIc?si=tedcfWVmAiimGrbS

“Vistance Networks” = Wi-Fi that arrives “within… vistance.”

“Aurora Networks” = your internet goes out, but it’s beautiful while it happens.

https://www.livescience.com/technology/communications/science-history-first-computer-to-computer-message-lays-the-foundation-for-the-internet-but-it-crashes-halfway-through-oct-29-1969

This is a time I wish I could have been a part of. It started out as 4 nodes. Had I been a bit older I would have been a part of the beginning. It was 6 years later that I did become a part of implementing the ARPANET which would become the internet. It's likely most on this board weren't even born yet.

Fortran is a computer language that is for the most part ridiculed (unjustly) now, however it was used to get us to the moon and back, and was used to implement the first packet switching.

"From there, the military agency funded a project to create such a network. For the system to work, it needed a way to break up messages from a sender into smaller portions that were then reassembled at the destination. Boehm and Baran simulated this process, which would eventually become known as packet switching, using a program written in the computer language Fortran."

Those were exciting times never to be had again.

"active" is useful for me as it sorts posts by latest reply.

it's a big blue button listed under "comment" button.

hope it helps.

Anyone know if we are able to use Starlink Internet for WFH? I am rural and my current Internet is terrible with minimal other options.