Misnomer: The X-Girl Picayune

The life (or is it the lack thereof?) stories of a twenty-6-year-old grad student

Tuesday, September 16, 2003

A&M network faces more problems

Students in residence halls and open-access labs Monday might have noticed an Internet shut out around 10 a.m., when an equipment operator somewhere between College Station and Dallas cut the optical cable that physically connects the Texas A&M network to the rest of the world.

The problem, known as a Backdoor Fade, took three hours to fix while technicians figured out where the gap was and reconnected the cable line, said Willis Marti, associate director of Computing and Information Services. During that time, campus technicians rerouted network lines through other sources so that students could access all but big commercial sites like eBay, Marti said.

Oo..how sad the world is without the internet. Really glad it's back on, a bit of roller coaster up and down every couple hours, but at least, it's working.

2:12 PM

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