That explains a few things today: Comcast confirms an internet backbone fiber was cut

[Zoidberg]

https://www.cnet.com/news/comcast-confir...de-outage/

Comcast confirms major Xfinity outage nationwide

For a minute there, it looked like the whole internet was down.

Update 2:25 p.m. ET: It looks like two of the fiber lines Comcast uses were cut, and because Comcast supplies internet backbone to a lot of places, it took 'em all out.

The original story follows.

If you couldn't reach your favorite web sites today at about 12:30 p.m. ET, it wasn't just you.

We first noticed it as Comcast customers took to Twitter to complain, but looking at Downdetector's graphs, you can see how many sites were affected.

This trend continued well down the page of sites monitored. It looks like they then began to recover. So, whew!

We've asked Comcast, Charter Spectrum and Verizon if they could shed some light on what happened but did not immediately hear back. However, Comcast gave a statement to CNBC (which Comcast owns) at about 1:47 p.m. ET stating it was aware of the problem and it's working on it.

[space-time]

must be that hose I put under sidewalk

[NewtonMP2100]

....sabotage.......

[wave rider]

space-time wrote:
must be that hose I put under sidewalk

(tu) And some begged you to contact that dig warning service…

[JoeM]

And here I thought I was a genius when I rebooted my modem and router and everything can back on.:facepalm:

[jh]

And then there is this



NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) - Tyler Thompson said it was a Google fiber bloodbath.
It was like a horror movie almost, like you saw them coming through with the big machine, and just all the wires were going everywhere,” said the East Nashville resident.
Working from home on Calvin Avenue, she’d watched from her front porch as public works contractors began to remove the top layer of her street for repaving, and immediately tore into the Google Fiber lines beneath.
Down the street, Kyle Komline knew the promises of non-stop high-speed internet service would come to a sudden halt.
“The cable is supposed to be buried deep enough that this wouldn't happen when they paved. And we signed up for Google fiber knowing it wouldn't be interrupted for paving,” Komline said.
Both Thompson and Komline both work from home and had no internet service for days.
Cortnye Stone, a spokeswoman for Metro Public Works, said seven months ago the city mandated that fiber lines be buried four inches deep, including on repair project.
But the News4 I-Team took a tape measure to see how deep the lines were re-buried and found at the corner of 15th Street and Calvin Avenue, the fiber was buried only two inches deep.

[RAMd®d]

Even burying a cable four inches deep doesn't seem like it would be deep enough.

[space-time]

RAMd®d wrote:
Even burying a cable four inches deep doesn't seem like it would be deep enough.

I believe electrical cables should be 12" or 16" here in NJ. A friend wants to run a cable from the house to the shed and he looked into this. that seems safe for a backyard, but still seem too shallow for a major street.

[macphanatic]

Burial depth all depends on the purpose of the cable and how it's protected.

[freeradical]

macphanatic wrote:
Burial depth all depends on the purpose of the cable and how it's protected.

Yup. They're in conduit.