Midcoast Internet Solutions

System
News & Notices

August 1998

• August 31, 1998 7:00pm. The T1 to Belfast is not working. We have notified Bell Atlantic. Bell Atlantic repaired the problem at 9:00pm.
• August 31, 1998 Some equipment was reset to clear a "ring-no-answer" in a bank of modems. This resulted in a dissconnect for those folks, but did solve the problem.
• August 27, 1998 Washington busy signals: Just found out that Northland has been billing us for lines which were never installed. We'd ordered 5 lines and were ready, but Northland never delivered. Grrrr. I'll call Northland in the morning and ask that they be put in immediately. Not having them is what is causing the busy signals some people have experienced.
• August 26, 1998 A problem with some of the bulletin boards was corrected.
• August 25, 1998 We've taken care of four messed up X2 lines. We've also contacted 3com/USR for a permanent solution.
• August 25, 1998 1:00am. A new network card will be installed in DNS in Owls Head. This upgrade went well.
• August 24, 1998 10:00pm. Lightning has knocked out power to our Union (785) POP. Service to 785 will return as soon as electricity is restored. ALL the other numbers are OK and no other outages have occured due to the storm.
• August 22, 1998 10:00am. A ring-no-answer at the Damaroscotta NOC was corrected
• August 22, 1998 1:30am. A new Switching Hub running at 10BaseT and 100BaseT was installed in the Damariscotta NOC. This will enhance connectivity and allow for smoother operation and futre expansion. A new lincoln is being built and will have the 100BaseT network card.
• August 20, 1998 A ring-no-answer problem on some X2 lines was corrected at 7:20am.
• August 18, 1998 We have a new X2 number - 354-3680, which should be a local call for Waldoboro people!
• August 13, 1998 00:30 DNS will be shut down for a moment to add an network card and increase memory. This will take about 5 minutes. c6h22o11 will be shutdown to add an additional hard drive for more capacity. This will take about 5 minutes also.
• August 6, 1998 11:45am Several more bad modems were removed from service this afternoon. More work will be conducted lete tonight to affect more repairs.
• August 6, 1998 11:45am A modem bank in Damariscotta was replaced with a spare. Several of the modems on this unit stopped responding to dialin attempts, causing ring-no answers from about 7:30 this morning. This emergency swap of equipment created ring-no answers for 20 minutes from 11:25 through 11:45am. Please report any continuing problems at the Dama POP to 563-8563
• August 5, 1998 9:00pm A main router in Owls Head needed to be restarted. This affected many things for about 3 minutes.
• August 5, 1998 Washington was found to have one dead phone line which was causing Ring-No-Answers. The phone company was called immediately. The second 56k was also dead, but did not affect connectivity.
• August 5, 1998 A problem with MailSpinner on midcoast.com was corrected at 10:00am.
• August 4, 1998 We will be doing some upgrade work on the Washington (845) lines this evening. It may interupt service for a short time, but outcome will be worth it.
• August 3, 1998 The 596-2410 number had some problems, most of which should be fixed by now. I worked much of the day on them.

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