What happened with Asus routers this morning?

Re:What happened with Asus routers this morning? by hbcondo714 on Thursday May 18, 2023 @01:36AM (#35984450)

The power of blogging and HN. Asus or my ISP didn't tell me why my router/internet went out twice today. I honestly thought thieves stole my copper again:

https://news.yahoo.com/rise-copper-theft-officials-concerned...

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Re:What happened with Asus routers this morning? by DANmode on Thursday May 18, 2023 @02:09AM (#35984582)

and brought it back in between? :D

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Re:What happened with Asus routers this morning? by TeMPOraL on Thursday May 18, 2023 @02:16AM (#35984614)

Maybe they were spotted by the police and had to pretend they're there installing the wires so they don't get caught.

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Re:What happened with Asus routers this morning? by itsphilos on Thursday May 18, 2023 @02:40AM (#35984745)

again?

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Re:What happened with Asus routers this morning? by mad0 on Thursday May 18, 2023 @04:47AM (#35985462)

I love when thieves are trying to steal copper, but all they get is a broken fiber optic ;)

My dad works as a network engineer, and he told me a story that one of the banks in Poland lost one of the internet providers. They investigated and found out that thieves stole hundreds of meters of a fiber cable, because they thought that it's copper.

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Re:What happened with Asus routers this morning? by garbagewoman on Thursday May 18, 2023 @06:17AM (#35986063)

that sounds like so much fun for all involved

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Re:What happened with Asus routers this morning? by maven29 on Thursday May 18, 2023 @07:22AM (#35986454)

Don't they typically have co-extruded copper in the conduit/pipes for Utility Locators to use, even if it's just fiber inside?

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