Midcoast Internet Solutions

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News & Notices

July 2008

• July 24, 2008 Our 563-8999 number has trouble as a result of early morning lightning. The MIS and the phone company are working on the problem.
• July 23, 2008 9:40pm. Lightning has messed up some equipment at the North Haven water tower. We will be working on it in the morning when we can transport some spare equipment. This affects wireless users on North Haven, Vinalhaven, Belfast, and parts of Northport and Islesboro. Update: 11am. Everything is back in working order.
• July 22, 2008 2:30pm. Tidewater area DSL, Waldoboro wireless, and Tommy's Island wireless were out of service for a couple minutes while an upgrade took place at Benner Hill. This upgrade involved doubling the backhaul capacity to Benner Hill and should improve speed for these users and everyone else who's Internet routes through Benner Hill.
• July 22, 2008 10:00am. The following wireless locations will be out of service for a period of about 15 minutes while a important upgrade takes place. North Haven, parts of Islesboro, parts of Vinal Haven Northport & Belfast. This upgrade went better than planned in terms of minimizing the outage and has provided better results than calculated.
• July 17, 2008 9:00am. Benner Hill wireless customers will have a short outage this morning for a minute or two while a network improvement is made.
• July 13, 2008 Noon. Tidewater area DSL customers are out of service at this time due to a widespread power outage in the Waldoboro area. A generator was brought to Waldoboro and began providing power at about 3:45pm.
• July 1, 2008 Some Benner Hill and Barret Hill customers have had short outages today while equipment has been swapped or changed around.