[RTC List] Digital Rio Dell - keeps on ticking

[Sean McLaughlin]

 From the free wi-fi at Sacramento airport:

Not sure the scale of the latest outage that hit the Redwood Coast.

Digital Rio Dell is using service provided by 101Netlink over a separate 
microwave link that reaches upstream of the recent fiber outages.. 

G W Bell wrote:
> I live in Cutten and my Suddenlink cable internet went belly-up 
> yeaterday as a result of the cable bing cut.  I have two questions:
>
> - Was Fortuna/Eureka/Arcata SBC DSL also out of commission?
> - What is Rio Dell's redundant path, eg, is it a microwave link to 
> some place upstream of where the cable was cut?  The Access Humboldt 
> site is not specific about the hardware mechanism involved.
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> George Bell
>
>
>> From: Sean McLaughlin <seanm707 at yahoo.com>
>> To: RTC <list at redwoodtech.org>
>> Subject: [RTC List] Digital Rio Dell - keeps on ticking
>> Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 23:00:55 -0700
>>
>> Looks like many of us were without Internet access and telecom services
>> today... yikes!
>>
>> But, (thanks to 101 Netlink) a redundant broadband connection was still
>> available for Digital Rio Dell to provide free wi-fi access at City Hall
>> in the "warm hearted city."
>>
>> Access Humboldt launched the Digital Rio Dell project on May 1, 2007
>> with a dedicated, redundant broadband connection and the beginnings of a
>> municipal wireless network (thanks to Jim Carlson and Nancy Flemming).
>>
>> For information on Digital Rio Dell - http://accesshumboldt.net.
>>
>> Access Humboldt is working with the City of Rio Dell and private
>> partners (including Suddenlink, Carlson Wireless and Security National)
>> to build and interconnect Rio Dell's wireless broadband network with a
>> regional fiber optic Public, Education, Government PEG Network that is
>> set to launch in September 2007.
>>
>> -- 
>> Sean McLaughlin
>> Executive Director
>> Access Humboldt
>> P.O. Box 157, Eureka, CA 95502
>> tel: 707-476-1798
>> fax: 707-445-1956
>> cel: 707-616-2381
>> e: seanm at accesshumboldt.net
>> web:  accesshumboldt.net
>>
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