crews are out digging fiber today.
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@cR0w city did a really good job of marking off all the gas, water and sewage lines in the area, but we'll see how badly they fuck this up.
@da_667 The locates are good for liability but at least out here, they wouldn't pothole the water and sewer. They would either hope they missed it or hope the locate was off. They were careful with power and gas though. Go figure.
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@bretthaines I'm paying 120 for comcast right now, even looking at 500up/down its like 50.00 a month. which is pretty crazy.
@da_667 @bretthaines I'm on gig att for 90/mo
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@da_667 Fill some water jugs. Back when I was working field utility work, they would rip and tear through water and sewer lines. They decided it was cheaper to take a chance than to pothole each one and avoid them. I made so much money in OT one Summer fixing their shit.
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I'm just happy I fixed this whoopsie so I can continue my hunt for fiber in my neighborhood.
Custom Hydraulic hoses are not cheap. Hose protection is cheap, I should probably look in to that.
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Frontier is putting fiber in around here, and I swear this describes their guys to a tee. Any time in the past few months I've heard someone local complain about an outage (be it internet or water), the answer to, "Oh, is Frontier working in your area?" has been, "Yes."
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@EdCates @cjust @cR0w we had a six hour long Comcast outage last night. and these dudes had already started work in the area. However the outage did coincide with a massive thunderstorm that rolled through the area, so I'm not sure who was to blame, but six hours was the longest internet outage I've had here in years.
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@EdCates @cjust @cR0w we had a six hour long Comcast outage last night. and these dudes had already started work in the area. However the outage did coincide with a massive thunderstorm that rolled through the area, so I'm not sure who was to blame, but six hours was the longest internet outage I've had here in years.
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@da_667 Fill some water jugs. Back when I was working field utility work, they would rip and tear through water and sewer lines. They decided it was cheaper to take a chance than to pothole each one and avoid them. I made so much money in OT one Summer fixing their shit.
Down under in the communist #Australia, we have a "Dial before you dig" phone line funded by the utilities. It's a phone line and a computer with GIS utility layers. We also have heavy fines for ripping utilities because we live in an oppressive communist dictatorship where people are not free.
This is probably way too backward for an advanced state like Naziland.
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@EdCates @da_667 @cjust @cR0w On one hand it would be nice to not have overhead services from an aesthetic perspective. On the other hand, it's much harder for the telecoms people to royally fuck up water/gas lines when their shit is suspended in the air.
Friend of mine works for the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District and likes to recount the story of when AT&T struck one of their large pipes full of pressurized shit in the middle of a major intersection.
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@EdCates @da_667 @cjust @cR0w On one hand it would be nice to not have overhead services from an aesthetic perspective. On the other hand, it's much harder for the telecoms people to royally fuck up water/gas lines when their shit is suspended in the air.
Friend of mine works for the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District and likes to recount the story of when AT&T struck one of their large pipes full of pressurized shit in the middle of a major intersection.
@huronbikes @EdCates @da_667 @cjust I've had to respond to those before. Busted force mains are no fun at all.
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@huronbikes @EdCates @da_667 @cjust I've had to respond to those before. Busted force mains are no fun at all.
