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Today, Thursday September 20th there will be a brief outage as we work to replace and upgrade some infrastructure at the HC tower location. This outage affects people in Espanola south of Walmart and all clients in Sombrillo. The outage will start around 3PM and last approximately 15 minutes.
We apologize for the short notice and thank you for your patience.
Power has been restored to our site in Española, all links have returned to normal.
A transformer feeding power to one of our hub sites has failed, bringing down communications from one of our sites and forcing three tower locations to backup connections. JMEC is on site and currently working on repairing the power situation. There is not yet an estimated time of resolution, but as soon as we know more we will provide an update.
This affects all clients from the south edge of Espanola through Alcalde.
There is a small power outage in Española affecting our customers in the Las Lomas apartments and the area of the Riverside/76 Intersection. At the moment none of our tower or core equipment is affected and service should be restored to customers once their power comes back on.
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We are making changes to the network in cooperation with upstream provider REDI Net to improve redundancy. These changes will begin at 5am on August 14th. It is possible it may disrupt all customers, although we do not anticipate any noticeable effects on traffic.
Today Thursday July 26th, we are replacing the backhaul to the MD tower with a licensed link. The tower will drop offline at around 9:45 AM and will be down intermittently until approximately 11:45 AM. This outage only affects a small handful of clients.
Thanks,
--Black Mesa Wireless
There is an extended power outage in southern Espanola affecting several of our locations. It has gone long enough to run down some of our battery backups. We are waiting for Jemez Co-op to restore power, at which time service will be restored.
We were informed the outage was due to a failing battery backup and has been resolved. All services should now be functioning normally.
One of our Espanola towers has lost its fiber feed from REDI Net. REDI Net Network Operations is investigating the issue. In the mean time, the backup link is functioning, but some users in Espanola and western Alcalde will see reduced speeds until the issue is resolved.
A widespread power outage is affecting most of Espanola, Alcalde, Dixon, Velarde, and Chamita. Our network core and most of our towers are still running but many customers will have an internet service outage until Jemez Co-op restores power.
See http://71.29.201.50:7576/ for the Jemez Co-op Outage Map.
We are working with REDI Net to resolve the issue that caused the system-wide outage last week. They are ready to apply their fixes and we have scheduled a service window for 07:00 - 07:30 on June 26th. We are hopeful this will not cause any further downtime, but it is a possibility.
We are currently experiencing a complete network outage as of approximately 8:00 AM today. We are working with REDI-Net in an attempt to determine what and where the problem is. We do not currently have an estimated resolution time, but check back for more updates.
-Black Mesa Wireless Team
We are performing some software and equipment upgrades on the Rio Arriba Health Commons tower site this morning, which will cause intermittent brief outages for customers on that tower. This affects primarily portions of southern and western Española, including Las Lomas apartments.
We are moving the core router, which handles all traffic for the entire network, to a larger battery backup tomorrow, June 19th at 5:30AM. This should only require 5 minutes of downtime but we are leaving a 30 minute window to deal with any possible issues that may come up. This will affect ALL CUSTOMERS.
We are having some problems with a router locking up in Velarde, affecting customers in Velarde and the north end of Alcalde. We are actively troubleshooting this issue and it may require a hardware replacement.
There appears to be a widespread power outage in the southern portion of Espanola, near the Dreamcatcher area and in to La Mesilla. Clients connecting to the tower near Santa Cruz may experience service interruptions due to extended power loss.
For more information, visit http://www.jemezcoop.org/ and view their outage map.
Hello Everyone,
There was briefly an outage related to the way our tower sites connect over the REDI Net infrastructure. The REDI networking staff was already working on a solution and they were able to get us back online in a matter of minutes. We apologize for the brief blip in service.
Thanks for your understanding!
There is a widespread power outage affecting most of our coverage area. We have had a battery backup failure at the network core as well, affecting some services.
We are bringing a generator online at the core and waiting for Jemez Co-op to bring power back to the rest of the service area.
We are performing a major upgrade of the Black Mesa tower tomorrow, February 12th, from 10AM to 1PM. This will improve battery capacity and router speed and is expected to improve both performance and reliability as a result.
All the necessary pieces are already assembled on site. We anticipate a relatively brief outage (10-15min) for most customers, but it could take some time to ensure that the new system is functioning correctly. Outages may occur at any time during the specified window.
Thanks for your patience with this upgrade.
We will be performing a brief battery upgrade in Velarde at around noon today. This will require the tower to go down for no more than 2-5 minutes as we must disconnect all power to connect the new batteries.
These batteries will help ensure that the tower keeps running even if we get some real winter weather.
