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News & Notices

November 2008

• November 27, 2008 9pm. The MIS network is currently back to full power. We would like to thank Central Maine Power and various other contractors who worked countless hours to help restore power throughout the holiday.
• November 25-26, 2008 5:10pm. A power outage in Nobleboro has outlasted our battery system there. This caused an outage for DSL in the Tidewater/Lincolnville service areas till 6:00pm. This ran on generator providing service till about 2am. An electrical problem damaged a piece of equipment providing service to this in Rockland and that was replaced by 5am. Benner Hill in Rockland lost power during the 2:00-3:00am time period. Islesboro and various neighborhood repeaters are currently without service due to widespread power outages. Most of our sites are working because of custom battery systems or generator.
• November 18, 2008 Noon: There is a power problem of some sort causing an outage at the Airport in Owls Head. The problem was corrected.
• November 17, 2008 4:30pm. There is a problem at the South Shore Drive wireless repeater in Owls Head. We are gathering replacement parts and will be working on it in the morning of November 18. This has been repaired.
• November 15, 2008 8:50pm. There has been some ongoing problems with the repeater at Long Pond in Somerville. We have been working steady to find a resolution to the problem with the site. We believe we have found problem and it has been addressed.
• November 13, 2008 5:30-5:45am. The router at our datacenter serving Tidewater/LTC area DSL and Tommy's Island wireless was upgraded.
• November 7, 2008 Recently there is another Virus/Trojan making the rounds as an email attachment. This recent virus claims to be from UPS and you will be charged for a package. These emails are typically worded in a way to trick people into opening an infected attachment. You should wary of opening any attachment from anyone. The best solution to not open something that looks suspicious and to have an up to date Anti-Virus program on your computer.
• November 6, 2008 There will be some outages at our Isle of Springs repeater while CMP replaces some poles in the area.
• November 4, 2008 This afternoon, we have had some short and intermittent outages. We have tracked down the problem and will be fixing it this evening. This will cause a ten to fifteen minute outage while we change the part at our datacenter. Update The problem router card was changed with a spare and is now working properly.