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It seems that there is a major problem with Comcast Internet in West Palm since yesterday. For exemple Coventry A is Off. Dorchester D came back at 5AM. Comcast told me that it should come back at 11AM. But they were saying 1PM, 5PM 1AM yesterday… They told me that there fiber was cut in many places. Nothing in the news but https://istheservicedown.com/problems/comcast-xfinity/4177887-west-palm-beach-palm-beach-county-florida-united-states
Hi Marc,
ReplyDeleteThe COMCAST network is coming back.
Both Cable and INTERNET.
Dave Israel
AT&T customers please stop laughing at Comcasters.
ReplyDeleteTOO MANY EGS IN ONE BASKET?
ReplyDeleteI have TV, Internet and landline phone with Comcast, so I lost everything except the cell phone. Comcast was of little help when I called them. It seemed as if the person I talked with was trying but had very limited information herself. When I called again 2 hours later, a guy knew a little more. Checking online after Comcast service was restored today (Sat.), I learned that most of the COUNTRY was affected, and it was being said there were breaks in the fiber-optic cable in two places.
Two places? That automatically makes me think sabotage unless it's a cascade effect causing one weak cable spot to weaken another. Regardless, the apparent ease with which the whole country can come tumbling down WITHOUT there having been a cyber attack really concerns me. How if there HAD BEEN a serious cyber attack?
Seems as if we, individually and collectively, may have too many eggs in one basket.
Hi Lanny,
DeleteYou have no idea how right you are, much of the Governmental and Military, Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence, C3I, data is carried on the INTERNET. Indeed, there is some redundancy, but a focused attack to disable the INTERNET is a very simple thing to implement.
Another Pearl Harbor in the offing, with far more devastating consequence!
Dave Israel
Interesting, because I just read the autobiography of Admiral Halsey (in the Navy in both World Wars). He goes into great detail about Pearl Harbor and the war in the Pacific, in which he played such an important role. It was no easy thing to recover from the terrible losses at Pearl, especially with our war efforts going on on two fronts. Breaking the Japanese code, Purple, helped greatly, but of course you couldn't take the military actions you wished you could, lest the Japanese realize from this we were onto their code. So did radar help, which gave us an edge over the Japanese for part of the war (then they got radar). Halsey, Nimitz, MacArthur, and the other leaders in the Pacific War had a real problem on their hands, which lasted longer than the war in Europe. The problem was in retaking the many islands, which the Japanese knew the value of full well. Planes had to be able to refuel going across the long distances of the Pacific. Ships, in fear of faster enemy ships, submarines, and air attacks (including by kamikaze pilots in the last stages of the war), had to be able to put into ports, guarded by planes and other ships, quickly on nearby islands. The two atomic bombs finally forced the never-give-up Japanese to surrender, but the hard work had been done.
ReplyDeletePearl Harbor was a sneak attack. Japan didn't declare war on us until a couple of days AFTER the attack! Small wonder there was such hatred here then for the Japanese. Small wonder Roosevelt feared the Japanese located in this country and put them in internment camps (which were NOTHING compared to the brutality our men were subjected to in the Japanese prison camps). "Once bit, twice shy," after all. To have done nothing about this would have been to be derelict in their duty. But today we sit back in our armchairs and criticize Roosevelt and his administration for being "over-zealous" and having no heart for these innocents. But who could know if they WERE all innocents after Pearl Harbor? There wasn't TIME for that, and you couldn't take the risk! Criticism is cheap.