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The Irony Of It All
Brad Hollerbach

The Forecast Calls For.... A Tsunami????

Posted Wednesday, August 12, 2009, at 12:00 AM

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  • How about a Second Coming Alert? From what you've found, undoubtedly the alert would arrive two hours after the event's occurance. Now that would be sad, indeed!

    -- Posted by voyager on Wed, Aug 12, 2009, at 9:22 AM
  • We can arrange that. But it would only be two hours after the fact, IF you have AT&T Wireless. Verizon was much more timely. No reports about Sprint or the other guys.

    Thanks for reading.

    -- Posted by Brad_Hollerbach on Wed, Aug 12, 2009, at 9:41 AM
  • James,

    I have ATT DSL internet at home and have been pretty happy with it. However, DSL and Cable are both shared bandwidth systems, so the more of your neighbors who sign up -- potentially -- the slower your own connection will be. I don't think there are lot of people using ATT DSL in my neighborhood so that helps. And when it comes to Internet speed, you are only as fast as the slowest link between you and the internet backbone.

    However, as far as their wireless service goes, these delays with ATT text messaging just started recently. Previous weather bulletins have gotten to me in a timely manner. My guess is that some software engineer changed something on a router or a switch on their network that is now causing the problem.

    I see things like that all the time. Just today I spent a couple hours dealing with the newspaper's phone company regarding a Quality Of Service issue on our voice lines. Hardest thing in dealing with problems like these is in first finding who do you should complain to and then convincing them that there is a problem. By the way, we DON'T use AT&T for our voice lines here at the paper.

    Thanks for reading.

    -- Posted by Brad_Hollerbach on Wed, Aug 12, 2009, at 3:40 PM
  • Brad,

    I have used weather.com for my text alerts on my cell for a long time and have been very pleased. The other night I was receiving texts within I would say 30 seconds of my weather radio going off. Armed with my scanner, weather radio and blackberry for weather radar I feel I am more than prepared for bad weather.

    In fact the day we had that line come through I had received a text alert and did not even realize how bad it was until I looked outside and then pulled up the radar and I have three windows in my office.

    Just my two cents worth.

    -- Posted by gman on Wed, Aug 12, 2009, at 8:30 PM
  • I disagree with James, I seem to get a bill very quickly from AT&T...the day after I pay them almost invariably!

    -- Posted by John in Jackson on Wed, Aug 12, 2009, at 8:49 PM
  • Thanks GMan. I've try weather.com. It would be interesting to see how they compare to our "service."

    TFR

    -- Posted by Brad_Hollerbach on Wed, Aug 12, 2009, at 8:50 PM
  • Also, I re-noticed the name of your blog, it's quite fitting for this comment; newspaperman talking about getting weather on the web, his cell phone, and TV. Your quite the media guru Brad!

    -- Posted by John in Jackson on Wed, Aug 12, 2009, at 8:52 PM
  • AT&T DSL is not a shared bandwidth system, each subsciber has the full amount of bandwidth available

    -- Posted by LocalFan12 on Thu, Aug 13, 2009, at 6:23 AM