Because of this failure, users may have experienced some busy signals Wednesday evening. The T1 failed again Thursday evening. US West finally located the problem Friday morning. The cover of a street corner junction box had been closed on some wires grounding one of the T1 pairs. Once again we have installed support for the v.90 56k protocol for testing purposes.
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Not all customers lost connectivity, but most saw degraded network performance. The outage was traced to a problematic fiber loop in WilTel's network. There was also an unrelated power outage in SE Portland that happened at the same time. July 3, Depoe Bay - Update Apparantly the switch to fiber has been completed. Our previous report that it wouldn't happen until the weekend was incorrect.