Archive for September, 2011

Partial LATA1 DSL Outage

Monday, September 26th, 2011

We have received confirmation from our vendor regarding a DSL outage that is affecting parts of LATA1.   We are actively working with our vendor to resolve this outage as soon as possible.  At this time we have no estimated time of repair. Customers on our Fusion platform are unaffected by ...

ATM Customer Aggregation Router Reload

Monday, September 26th, 2011

This Tuesday, September 27 at 12:01 AM, we will be performing a maintenance reload on our ATM customer aggregation routers. This will result in 5-10 minutes of downtime for Business-T and FRATM customers. -Jared

Emergency ATM Switch Reload

Saturday, September 24th, 2011

Today, Saturday September 24, at approximately 10:55 AM, we will be performing an emergency reload of one of our ATM switches. The ATM switch appears to have suffered an error which is affecting traffic flow through the box, and the only possible resolution is a full reload of the switch. ...

Sonic.net offers free FaxLine service

Monday, September 12th, 2011

FaxLine delivers PDF to email Announcing the availability of FaxLine, our new fax to email and fax sending feature. Now, at no additional cost, Internet access customers can get their own FaxLine number from Sonic.net. Received faxes are sent via email as standard PDF files—easy to print, store, and forward. If receiving ...

Legacy DSL Outage

Saturday, September 10th, 2011

We are in the process of diagnosing a Legacy DSL outage that appears to be affecting much of Northern California.  We are actively working with our vendor to resolve this outage as soon as possible.  At this time there is no estimated time of repair. Update: Our vendor has diagnosed the ...

Emergency Legacy DSL Maintenance

Thursday, September 8th, 2011

We are currently performing emergency maintenance on equipment serving Legacy DSL customers in the San Diego area. We expect 5 to 10 minutes of downtime while the work is performed. -Tim and Jared Update: The intrusive maintenance has been completed, and all affected customers should be back online. The trouble found was ...

Graymail Nightly Reports

Thursday, September 8th, 2011

Due to a recent database upgrade the nightly graymail reports were not being delivered to users. We have corrected the issue and are now processing and delivering reports to users. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. -William

Non-Intrusive Backbone Maintenance

Tuesday, September 6th, 2011

Tonight, September 7 at 12:01 AM we will be performing several non-intrusive network maintenance tasks on our Telecom backbone. The work should be completed by 1AM, and no impact is expected to customer traffic. -Jared and Nathan

America’s Intentional Broadband Duopoly

Friday, September 2nd, 2011

  Michael Powell When was the last time someone offered to sell you Broadband over Power Line (BPL)? BPL was one of the FCC’s five “modes” of competitive access, and the FCC traded this flawed concept of “intermodal” competition for true open market competition. In 1996, Congress passed The Telecom Act, a major update ...

News Server Downtime

Thursday, September 1st, 2011

The primary server in the NNRP cluster, news.sonic.net, lost power briefly and was rebooted.  It’s currently checking its filesystems and should be back in service shortly but news.sonic.net is unavailable in the meantime.