Everytime my AT&T goes out, Spectrum knocks on my door

sounds like a conspiracy to me

I have the exact same thing happen when I try to get accounts for the public city wifi stuff they're starting up. It's creepy. They're all older guys 40s+ with the creepy pedo mustaches and 40" waistline lol.

Nope, don't seem odd at all. Nothing to see here.

This is actually a real deal though. If your router presence goes out for like 30 mins or so (at least where I'm at) competing companies will knock on your door and literally tell us they noticed my/our internet is out.

Like wtf lol.

I guess our next step is call a consumer watchdog group. I wish this time I had asked for a business card to document it.

I'm sure there will be a next time.

No shit!?

How?

This happens to me 3 or 4 times each and every year. Usually when lightning hits a generator or something.

I forgot! Last week we had a cold call from Spectrum via phone. Then the service went out Monday.

No kidding, these companies have techs that will sabotage the competing companies lines to get business these days.

i really really doubt it. unless business is just that slow but with the lazy/sloth generations coming out of the bread ovens these days i really really doubt it...they need it like an invisible life/blood line.


for them the internet is a neon yellow nippy for their sippy of drank.

nods, mouth waters

Last Edited by GreenMonkey on 09/07/2021 07:45 PM

Haha!

Sounds like Spectrum is disconnecting AT&T to get you to switch. Haha!

S.M.H.

Why would Spectrum though? They have more influencing power and lobbyists and have been trying to choke AT&T for years now.

I mean they have the political clout (business ties to Microsoft giant) and business power (again...) to flip the switch on AT&T. I don't really think they'd try to actively shut off AT&T customers lol.

Can you explain more how they could possibly know of a service disruption? Do they share the same main box?

I learned from a buddy who works at Comcast that ISPs are given privileged information from the major backbone outlets (L3, AT&T, others.) This funcationality gives them the ability and reason to ping subscribers. However the casts that come out only identify it as basically an ISP. So lets say you own a.a.a.a as an ISP right?

So you ping your a.a.a.a as ISP B. It echoes back "yep still here, thanks for checking up on me you ole carebear." and the ISP responds "check-check."

Competing ISP says "I'm ISP" (C) are you still there? Router/PC echoes back "yep still here, thanks for checking up on me you ole carebear."

It's a weird thing that happens on the net and it's not suppose to happen because of the way IP4 and IP6 packets are set up. A lot of data scientists think it happens because of caching and control schemes on the internet backbones.

It's also a great way to monitor the feds but we're nowhere close or ready for that disclosure lol. :P

Last Edited by GreenMonkey on 09/07/2021 07:54 PM

Wow, okay. I'll have to take your word for it. Enjoyed the prose but it went right over my head, lol! Thanks so much though for taking the time to reply, it's all pretty frustrating.

mainland. With a playboy avatar talking about pedo mustaches.How ironic?

It's basically like this:
(every little bit...like 5 to 15 seconds depending on provider) the provider (isp) will send out a packet to your router or PC and say "you still there? do i need to keep washing the dishes?" and if you reply back that "yep, i did the laundry!" then it keeps you connected online.

but that to/from the ISP, any ISP for some reason on the internet gets specialized IP numbers or something of the sort that gets treated different from other numbers. Like a special set of registered IP numbers (isp) get to do things with packets/pc's/servers that other IP numbers don't get to.

and they're basically all just on "team ISP." but it's a double edged sword the fat diabetic PC nerds at the ISP and government level don't really get into too much because it just works.

Last Edited by GreenMonkey on 09/07/2021 08:10 PM

You made it weird, lol!

He was just being helpful.

They're the same company just like Pepsi and coca cola. Berthshire Hathaway, blackrock, and vanguard are the controlling shares of all us companies.

i hate to lay it out for you numbnuts, but you give the avatar power not the avatar itself.