Today’s definition of irony

We have fiber internet at home. It’s awesome.

Well, usually. Not today, though, because it’s out.

The culprit?

Another company installing fiber in our neighborhood cut the line.

Hello from a local bookstore. 

That's an expensive cut.

In reply to Stampie :

Glad I didn’t do it. Looks like it happened around the corner, so I’m guessing it’s impacting a number of people. 

But check out how they do lunch. Free plug: Novel Tea Book Shop in Ormond Beach, Florida.

That's a big chicken salad sammich!

It’s delish. Or, rather, it was. :)

Good news, everyone: Our internet is back.

According to map, those around the corner are out. I’m guessing it was all part of the same issue?

And, Stampie, when you say it’s an expensive cut, how expensive is expensive?

Maybe....  it wasn't an accident! 

Fiber vs. Fiber?

In reply to David S. Wallens :

It's been a while since I heard a quote but I remember $50,000 being thrown around for one back in the early 2000s.

EDIT - SORRY BUT EARLER POST HAD AN EXTRA 0.

Dang. They had a few trucks plus a little trailer out there. 

1988RedT2 said:

Maybe....  it wasn't an accident! 

Fiber vs. Fiber?

 

This now makes three companies offering fiber service in our neighborhood. So maybe?

In reply to Stampie :

When a network hub got hit when I was doing Verizon FiOS digs it was like $60k. But that was the neighborhood box itself getting hit with a missile(not cruise missile missile, hydropneumatic ram basically), because one call doesn't tell you somebody's driveway is hiding massive truck sized boulders. 

I think I remember the premade fiber lines we were burying from box to house ran like $5/foot.

That would have been 07-08 though. 

In reply to RevRico :

Yeah thinking about it more I'm wondering if they spliced it back or just swapped over to a spare dark fiber.  Sounds like they were spicing it from the trucks and trailer but they could have switched to a dark fiber then after they spiced the old one it becomes the back up dark fiber.

Well, yeah, you could swap to another fiber.... but if the cable carrying the fibers was cut, they'd all be dead. New cable time. Or splice time.

This is what they refer to in the industry as an oopsie-daisy.

I think they do at least. I'm not in that industry.

In reply to confuZion3 :

The quick turn around to get them up implies to me that they swapped fibers unless spicing is much faster these days.

Three different companies installed fiber in our neighborhood over the course of a year or so. We had the first company. When the next one came through to install their system, they cut ours. A few months later, the third company came through and cut our fiber again, plus they cut my sprinkler system in two places.

I have Google fiber, one night we had a terrible thunderstorm, lightning hit a neighbors tree, the branch caught fire, fell down on the high voltage line at the top, burned in two and while still burning lay down on the fiber cable, setting the insulation on fire. It burned slowly all night long - in the morning it was still burning so I grabbed the garden hose, gave it a quick blast and it was out. That was 3 years ago.

It took two weeks to get it working again - which they did by going back to a good section and cabling in, leaving those new cables lying on the ground. After about 8 months of that a few of us called and complained, and they sent a guy out who tied the cables up off the ground. They've never replaced the burned cables and probably never will - one of the techs estimated it would cost close to $250K to replace everything back to the way it was.....and as long as it works (which it does) they're in no hurry to spend the dough.

My personal favorite definition of irony:

David S. Wallens said:

Another company installing fiber in our neighborhood cut the line.

"backhoe fade"