This morning, Don was talking on the phone with someone in a nearby town concerning a community project they're both working on. Without warning, the phone gave three warning beeps and died.
Our phone is an older instrument. We call it a landline (since it doesn't accept texts), though technically it's a cell phone. Sometimes the battery gets low, or sometimes it gives us connectivity issues, but 99 percent of the time it's fine.
Anyway, the dropped phone call was an annoyance but not much else ... until Don saw a notice on his computer that the internet had been disconnected.
This was weird. The phone and our internet are two entirely separate internet providers. Why would they both go down at the same time?
In less than five minutes, both forms of communication were back up. Don called his associate again, and they both agreed it was a weird glitch. "Yeah, there are all kinds of rumors that bad things are coming," the other man said.
Yeah, a weird glitch.
Even with different providers, independent services often rely on the same physical utility poles, underground conduit bundles, or regional data centers. A single accident (like a construction vehicle severing a main fiber trunk) can disable multiple networks.
ReplyDeleteYikes! Why are bad things coming?
ReplyDeleteThis crowd always thinks that. Why attribute a momentary glitch to a simple source when you can be conspiracier than thou? Because the Chinese/Russians are desperate to unlock the secrets of rural Idaho.
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DeleteOr a local teenager practicing his or her hacking skills on public utilities?
Thanks Krab, I needed a laugh this morning.👍
DeleteIf one looks at BOTH parties (Repub's-Dem's) postings they are NOT good so with that and ALL the hacking going on from mostly foreign entities, it is prudent to stay prepped as anyway you cut it things are looking more and more gloomier everyday! Very sad state of affair's this country is in. No I am NOT a pessimist, I am a realist. LOL
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