Midcoast Internet Solutions

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News & Notices

February 1999

• February 26, 1999: The mail systems on lincoln.midcoast.com were down for 10 minutes this morning. A re-boot of the server also prevented logins and mail traffic for that time. Systems are operating normally now.
• February 25, 1999: The Mailspinner program was restarted at 10am after refusing to respond.
• February 24, 1999 - Wiscasset Users: Woo-Hoo! Bell Atlantic will be cutting over service to the new POP and Hardware in Wiscasset on Tuesday March 2nd. There will be a new phone number that can be used by Wiscasset, Bath and Brunswick customers and the old 882 number will stay in service. Both numbers will point to the same systems.
• February 22, 1999 - Wiscasset Users: We completed testing on the new lines. All of them passed with flying colors with connects of at least 50k!
• February 22, 1999 - Wiscasset Users: The new incoming telephone lines were activated today at the new digs in downtown Wiscasset! We are testing the modems and lines (although it all looks good from initial calls into each line). We will pull the trigger on moving the data circuit to the new location . BA will need some time to make that happen, but we expect it will be within a week. Their will be a NEW number for Brunswick, Bath, and any area that calls the 442 or 443 exchange as a local number. Wiscasset users will be able to use the new or old number. Edgecomb, Boothbay Area and Southport users will still use 882-9664. The new lines will support 56k v.90 connections. We will announce the new number as soon as we have a firm date for the move.
• February 22, 1999 - Washington Users: The phone company went to install the new lines after we ordered them 4 weeks ahead of time, and didn't like the arrangement on the pole. CMP is coming out at their earliest convenience - March 2, to rewire the pole. Then the phone lines can be installed. Hopefully March 2 or March 3. It'd be nice if the phone company had checked the situation out for new service earlier than the day before they were due. That's one of the reason's we gave them SO MUCH advanced notice when placing the order for the lines.
• February 19, 1999 Wireless news: The Benner Hill (Rockland) repeater site is up and running. This assists in serving Rockland, Owls Head, Thomaston, the Thomaston-Rockland stretch, and parts of Warren. As mentioned in the newsletter, Ragged Mtn. (Camden/Rockport) is also running smoothly.
• February 18, 1999 We completed FTP server software upgrades on all of our servers today.
• February 17, 1999 A problem with the 593-8000 number was diagnosed and fixed.
• February 17, 1999 The Liberty exchange (589) hunting problem has been reported to Northland. This is said to be fixed by Terry at 3:12pm.
• February 16, 1999 It has been discovered that half of the new lines recently installed in Liberty (589) are not hunting properly. This was causing only 10 lines to be available out of 12. Northland will be contacted about this in the morning.
• February 15, 1999 The Wiscasset service installation has been put off, by Bell Atlantic, until the 26th of March. This represents an additional 8-10 day delay from BA on this order. No reason is being given at this time. We have talked to the BA rep and expect an additional update tomorrow, when BA resumes operations.
• February 12, 1999 4:00pm Bell Atlantic has replaced a faulty "doubler" in the data circuit between Owls Head and the Rockland CO. This trouble started last night at about midnight, was called in to C&W at 1am: They tested at 4am and turned the problem over to Bell: Bell started testing (without notice) at Noon and the fix was on. Testing of these cicuits requires that they be taken out of service. This caused some customers the inablility to connect to internet sites outside the MIS system.
• February 12, 1999 3:00pm The trouble with the C&W link was located. Bell Atlantic is repairing a bad repeater in the data circuit to the MIS NOC in Owls Head. Service should be restored very soon.
• February 12, 1999 1:00pm Bell Atlantic was testing our T1 line to C&W around noon. This affected some users. The circuit is still showing errors and we anticipate more disruptions in service in order to identify and repair the problem. Updates here as we have them.
• February 11, 1999 A newsletter is being sent out by email over the next few hours to everyone with an @midcoast.com address. A link to the newsletter is here.
• February 11, 1999 12:15-12:25am The memory was sucessfully replaced on DNS. This should improve it's reliability.
• February 10, 1999 Noon. 2 Modem banks were reset in an attempt to clear a stuck modem that is/was causing a ring-no-answer on the 5636644 number. Please let us know if you ever encounter this kind of problem. Use the Trouble Ticket form or send us an email.
• February 10, 1999 9:30am. DNS had an unscheduled reboot. It was attended to immediately. New memory will be arriving for this machine today, and will be installed tonight - at about midnight.
• February 3, 1999 Bell Atlantic gave us an estimate of "no sooner than February 15th" on the new services we ordered for Wiscasset two weeks ago. The new POP in Wiscasset will replace the current POP, and will expand available lines from the current 10 to 23. The new equipment will also support 56k connections and will add all of the Brunswick area to the MIS local calling area.
• February 2, 1999 The original 785 Union POP is having trouble the the leased line feeding it. Bell Atlantic has been notified and is working on it. In the mean time, we'd recommend the new 785 number which we've been talking about.
• February 2, 1999 The new Union and Damariscotta V90 lines are available for use. The numbers are 785-6622 and 563-6622. Union customers should sign in with your full email address instead of just the username. This represents 48 new lines - 24 for each exchange.
• February 01 1999 dns.midcoast.com was had an unscheduled reboot this evening at about 9:30. This was corrected within 15-20 minutes.
• February 01 1999 5:00pm A problem with 593-8000 was tracked down and corrected. 7:00pm., a problem with authenticating on the columbian.midcoast.com modem server was also corrected.
• February 01 1999 New Lines are available for testing in the Damariscotta and Union areas. There are 24 lines in Union, and 24 new lines in Damariscotta. The new numbers are 563-6622 and 785-6622. These lines are capable of "better than 33.6k" connections when used with a v.90 capable modem. Please read more about the system and use the Testing Feedback Form to report on your experience with the new lines & modems. If you log into this modem server, please log in with your full email address

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