Midcoast Internet Solutions

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News & Notices

November 2006

• November 17, 2006 5:40pm. After serveral problems, we narrowed down a problem at Thomaston that was affecting customers who use that access point. The problem has been corrected and all should be working normally. In the next few months all equipment for people pointing to Thomaston will be upgraded to a better service.
• November 17th, 2006 8:45am. Power on Hatchet Mountain has gone out and outlasted our battery backup system there. This also effects the South Hope Internet Transmitter. Update:11:30am. Power has been restored and all is fine now.
• November 16, 2006 10:00am. Wireless customers using the Thomaston Fire Department tower just lost service due to a problem there. We are investigating. The problem has been fixed at 10:30am.
• November 15, 2006 6:30-7:00am. One of the five email servers for midcoast.com email addresses will be out of service during this time for an upgrade. Spam has increased quickly in the past week and we need the upgrade for faster email.
• November 14, 2006 Some midcoast.com email addresses have been slow to receive emails. They are not lost, but queued amongst a huge load of spam. The servers virus scan and check every message for spam. More messages had come in at times than the servers could instantly process.
• November 6, 2006 10:15am. Our Glen Cove wireless repeater is having a problem. Someone has been dispatched to investigate.
• November 1, 2006 A newsletter has gone out to @midcoast.com and @lincoln.midcoast.com addresses. A copy is here.