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News & Notices

November 2004

• Nov 24, 2004 8:00-10:00pm. Power was out at Ragged Mountain and outlasted our battery backups there - presumably due to the stormy weather. This affected wireless users who aim to Ragged mountain during this time.
• Nov 23, 2004 A newsletter is being sent out. A copy is here.
• Nov 17, 2004 5:05-5:20pm. The mail routing server for virtual domains was not routing mail during this time due to an unscheduled reboot. No mail was lost.
• Nov 17, 2004 10:40am. Some DSL customers had trouble after this mornings reboot. Things are repaired now. This problem was the result of a bug in the Cisco router at our datacenter.
• Nov 17, 2004 6:00am. The router Zoombrew will be upgraded. This will cause about a five minute outage for internet traffic during this time.
• Nov 17, 2004 6:00am. The equipment for tidewater area DSL will be rebooted, causing a five minute outage for those users.
• Nov 16, 2004 Wireless is available in Waldoboro now! Both 900mhz gold service and 5.8ghz platinum service are are available.
• Nov 12, 2004 The router Zoombrew went down from 11:30am until 11:50am. This affected some users browsing the Internet. Barry went to the data center and "smartened it up."
• Nov 10, 2004 We've received word that AOL has added midcoast.com to their E-Mail whitelist. This means the problem described in the message below should be rectified. If users continue to have problems with sending mail to AOL servers, please let us know.
• Nov 8, 2004 Some users may have had difficulty in the past day or so sending messages to AOL users in a timely manner. This is an issue caused by AOL. They are rate-limiting midcoast.com email to AOL due to the volume we create. We have applied to be whitelisted at AOL which would exempt midcoast.com from their automated rate-limiting system.
• Nov 2, 2004 2:00pm. During the day, some users of the internet accelerator service had problems. This has been diagnosed and fixed.
• Nov 1, 2004 4:15pm The server for downtown Camden wireless has been rebooted and caused an outage for about 2 minutes.
• Nov 1, 2004 Washington and Liberty users should note that the 845 and 589 dialup numbers are no longer in service. Instructions to change numbers are in the October 5 newsletter linked below.