May 30 2008
C&W Power Surges
In just two weeks C&W in Guernsey, the only supplier of telecoms infrastructure on the island, has suffered from power surges in their equipment that has, as a minimum, affected broadband users and possibly damaged users equipment. The first surge may have taken engineers several days to rectify the problems. The second surge, last night, was fixed by engineers working overnight.
What is surprising about this is that C&W equipment is being so easily knocked-out by power surges. Surely they must be using some form of UPS and it would seem ludicrous to me to us a UPS that doesn’t offer surge protection… unless of course they are trying to cut costs in order to make more profit.
[Disclaimer: I may be a little biased as I still haven't received my long awaited broadband upgrade]
I’m wondering if “power surge” is the default term that they use when one of their new systems goes titsup. It’s extremely convenient for them “oh, yeh, sorry, power surge.” Blah.
I’m still having big problems with my interwebs.