[SATLUG] Grande Comunications down last night

[Bruce Dubbs]

Jennie Haywood wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Todd W. Bucy <toddwbucy at grandecom.net>wrote:
> 
>> at about 5:00 pm I started noticing that we were having problems with
>> our Internet service by 6:00pm we noticed that our cable tv service was
>> down.  upon calling Grande they said that they were currently having
>> technical difficulties in the San Antonio Area.  Service returned to
>> normal by about 8:30 pm. Anyone on the list have any idea what happened?

> I don't know what happened, but  the service was sporadic for those hours.
> Everything was out - internet, phone and cable tv for about an hour.

This is exactly the problem I have with internet based phone systems like 
Vontage or Time Warner's digital phone.  I feel the most reliable phone is still 
copper from AT&T.

   -- Bruce