Cable & Wireless Problem Resolved
Mar 19th, 2008 by Don Ray
In case you didn’t read the comment that was left on a previous post explaining the outage, I will make it a little more visible.
According to a comment from “serverseller”, the outage is a result of thieves steeling the fiber cable, in the Agradulce area, thinking they were getting copper cable.
You may think that this is unlikely, but unfortunately, I have to believe that is a credible answer. I have heard of people coming home from a vacation only to find that all of the house’s copper wiring was missing. I have a vacant house that is in my neighborhood and the owner said it had been stripped of any and all things of value.
This Internet outage would be funny, if it weren’t so sad.
Don Ray:
Here in CA this is an everyday problem. It seems copper price has gone up and the farmers are getting hit hard. There is even a task force especially created for this (Sheriff) and new restictions on metal recycling plants buying copper.
Jaime
Hi Don,
Last week here in the San Diego area some genius was killed trying to steal copper from a “live” electric line while standing on an aluminum ladder. His last words were (reportedly) “who’s Darwin”??
One down, way too many to go.
Dan
Rumor has it that last year’s slowdown was caused by thieves stealing what they thought was copper wire only to find out it was fiber optic. This was somewhere east of David. I was told that they jumper the break with much slower wireless until the fix is made. I did read while back in Costa Rica, a thief terminally fried himself stealing copper wire from an electric line.
Hi all. Thanks for dropping in and taking the time to leave a comment.
Well, that is happening here too. Lots of people here have lost copper plumbing while gone on vacation.
I guess the problem is world wide.
I found this exciting article today:
Boffins stretch Wi-Fi signals to 100km
Intel’s researchers have come up with a way to send Wi-Fi signals up to 60 miles (100km), while maintaining a usable throughput of up to 6.5Mbits/s.
According to MIT’s Technology Review, the system is known as the ‘rural connectivity platform’ (RCP) for the way it can, at relatively low cost, connect towns to out-of-the-way locations otherwise bypassed by new communication technologies.
This is to be more than a lab engineer’s daydream and has been field tested in India, Panama, Vietnam and South Africa.
The technology is innovative on a number of levels. It works using a point-to-point design, which automatically lowers cost to a quoted region of $500-$1,000 (£250-£500) for a single connection – way below rival systems such as cable broadband or satellite.
full story at:
http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=11774
Doubt if the technology will reach Panama in my lifetime.
They’ve been testing it in Panama, Don. Hope the roll-out isn’t too far away. I think you will be around for a while yet. Hope so.
don, do you know how to go to the registro publico web site and get all your land information [title registry etc] if so can you navigate me through this step by step I can not speak spanish
2 also the union fenosa web site im having problems with sending them amessage as to how i register to see my account info
thank you