Hello,
Sting asked that I post this a few places to let you know his A-Net BBS set of systems are offline due to a network issue - potentially until Friday.

Hope this is an ok place to put this.

Regards,
Basis
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Sting asked that I post this a few places to let you know his A-Net BBS set of systems are offline due to a network issue - potentially until Friday.

Sucks, SR - don't worry about us, we know yer a mainstay in this space and hope that you get your network up again soon. :/ UGH.

A-Net BBS for the w1n!



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Sting asked that I post this a few places to let you know his A-Net BBS
set of systems are offline due to a network issue - potentially until
Friday.

Sucks, SR - don't worry about us, we know yer a mainstay in this space and hope that you get your network up again soon. :/ UGH.

A-Net BBS for the w1n!

pAULIE42o
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HUGE Thanks to Basis for sending the messages for me!

Thank you, Paulie!! There was a HUGE area-wide AT&T outage in my area. We lost fiber internet and cell phone service, too.
I assume their backhaul went out since we also lost cell coverage.

All systems back online! =:-)

-StingRay
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StingRay wrote to paulie420 <=-

Thank you, Paulie!! There was a HUGE area-wide AT&T outage in my area.
We lost fiber internet and cell phone service, too. I assume their backhaul went out since we also lost cell coverage.

I've wanted to go AT&T fiber to get symmetric service, but we're all
fed from overhead poles. I'm on a dead-end cul de sac, and power poles
alternate sides of the street.

Walking my dog yesterday, I saw 2 fiber house runs on my block knocked
down by a moving truck - when you have to cross a street and run
diagonally to get to the house, the amount of sag in the cable makes it
susceptible to being snagged by high trucks.

AT&T finally solved my next-door neighbor's recurring cable cuts by
throwing the AT&T fiber over the Comcast cable on the pole, giving it
about a foot more height running to the house. It's all fine until
friction wears through the cable jacket, but that'll be someone else's
problem.




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I've wanted to go AT&T fiber to get symmetric service, but we're all fed from overhead poles. I'm on a dead-end cul de sac, and power poles alternate sides of the street.

Walking my dog yesterday, I saw 2 fiber house runs on my block knocked down by a moving truck - when you have to cross a street and run diagonally to get to the house, the amount of sag in the cable makes it susceptible to being snagged by high trucks.

AT&T finally solved my next-door neighbor's recurring cable cuts by throwing the AT&T fiber over the Comcast cable on the pole, giving it about a foot more height running to the house. It's all fine until friction wears through the cable jacket, but that'll be someone else's problem.

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This is the first outage in almost 5 years. Even though it was an inconvience, I can't complain with the uptime vs outage ratio.

I work from home full-time so this is extremely important.

-StingRay
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On 11 Jun 2026, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...

I've wanted to go AT&T fiber to get symmetric service, but we're all
fed from overhead poles. I'm on a dead-end cul de sac, and power poles
alternate sides of the street.

could you put your own pole up at a halfway point? offer to pay for the little extra cable that is required if it's not quite as direct as they'd usually run it? maybe throw a light on there and point it at the driveway hehe

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HUGE Thanks to Basis for sending the messages for me!

Thank you, Paulie!! There was a HUGE area-wide AT&T outage in my area. We lost fiber internet and cell phone service, too. I assume their
backhaul went out since we also lost cell coverage.

All systems back online! =:-)

Yay! Go Stingray!

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HUGE Thanks to Basis for sending the messages for me!

Thank you, Paulie!! There was a HUGE area-wide AT&T outage in my area. We
lost fiber internet and cell phone service, too. I assume their backhaul
went out since we also lost cell coverage.

All systems back online! =:-)

Yay! Go Stingray!

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=:-)
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Thank you, Paulie!! There was a HUGE area-wide AT&T outage in my area.
We lost fiber internet and cell phone service, too.
I assume their backhaul went out since we also lost cell coverage.

All systems back online! =:-)

Boom - just like that, our A-Net is back to n0rmal!!!



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This is the first outage in almost 5 years. Even though it was an inconvience, I can't complain with the uptime vs outage ratio.

Better than Github!

(Yeah, yeah, just because basically everything is...)

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fusion wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

could you put your own pole up at a halfway point? offer to pay for the little extra cable that is required if it's not quite as direct as
they'd usually run it? maybe throw a light on there and point it at the driveway hehe

I don't use AT&T's copper coming into the house any more, it looks like
I've got a little bit more clearance than my neighbors from how their
copper runs. I'd need to figure out how to get from the top of my roof
into my office, though. I may order AT&T fiber alongside Comcast just
to try it out.



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StingRay wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

This is the first outage in almost 5 years. Even though it was an inconvience, I can't complain with the uptime vs outage ratio.

I work from home full-time so this is extremely important.

Yeah, sounds like it was a biggie. I work from home, too. I have
Xfinity, and have gotten used to once a week having to power-cycle my
router. I have a deal for the next 12 months due to a billing issue of
theirs, we''ll see what happens at the end of it. I'm paying $120/month
for phone, internet and cable with a DVR now.

I'm working with Comcast on a deal for my offices at work, accidentally
called them Xfinity. They were quick to correct me that they're a
different organization. :)



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I work from home full-time so this is extremely important.

Yeah, sounds like it was a biggie. I work from home, too. I have Xfinity, and have gotten used to once a week having to power-cycle my router. I have a deal for the next 12 months due to a billing issue of theirs, we''ll see what happens at the end of it. I'm paying $120/month for phone, internet and cable with a DVR now.

I'm working with Comcast on a deal for my offices at work, accidentally called them Xfinity. They were quick to correct me that they're a different organization. :)

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Yeah so you get it! Working from home we gotta have the internet!!

As much as a PITA as it was, 1 time in almost 5 years I really can't complain. We found out it was from the consturction crew (road work - lane widening) being done next to our neighborhood and an excavator knocked a pole over.

So technically, not even AT&T fault. Hope you find something that works well!

I have been very happy with the AT&T fiber.

-StingRay
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I'm working with Comcast on a deal for my offices at work, accidentally
called them Xfinity. They were quick to correct me that they're a
different organization. :)

I thought they were the same company. That they had switched their name several years back.
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I'm working with Comcast on a deal for my offices at work, accidenta
called them Xfinity. They were quick to correct me that they're a
different organization. :)

I thought they were the same company. That they had switched their name several years back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xfinity

...seems to indicate they still are a part of Comcast.

I'm figuring that pF is saying, "they're a different organization" because the corporate side he's working for interacts with a part of Comcast that is not Xfinity.

Maybe.

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