solar flare causing outages?

[mamak59]

is anyone having problems getting their internet, email and SMS due to the solar flare that's been said to the biggest since 2005? mine's been knocked out since 7:30 am PST...

(Virgin mobile user)

 

[Atma]

No phone trouble, but I am having trouble breathing with the atmosphere burning away.

 

[melim]

My phone's on the charger right now, but I'll check when it's done to see if I'm having any wackiness...

 

[Thorsten]

No phone trouble, but I am having trouble breathing with the atmosphere burning away.

Exactly. Anyone who watched 2012 (the movie) knows that while solar flares can and within months will reshuffle the earth

 

[HowDoiUseAndro]

My pacemaker is having problems tod......

 

[Atma]

Currently its an S3 Radiation Storm.

S 3 ​

Strong ​

[SIZE=-1]Biological: radiation hazard avoidance recommended for astronauts on EVA; passengers and crew in high-flying aircraft at high latitudes may be exposed to radiation risk.***[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Satellite operations: single-event upsets, noise in imaging systems, and slight reduction of efficiency in solar panel are likely.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Other systems: degraded HF radio propagation through the polar regions and navigation position errors likely. [/SIZE]


Probably not the most reliable day for your GPS.

 

[bac22]

I'm safe...wearing my tin foil hat!

Okay...works on aliens figure it works with solar flares too!

 

[Atma]

Now it's an S3 Radiation Storm, plus a G1 Geomagnetic Storm. I hope it makes it to a G4 and I can see auroras in North Carolina. Just don't mess with my Optimus V.

 

[cammykool]

My 3g was out this morning. It made me a saaaaaaaad panda

 

[Michael323]

3G was out for me for about 30 minutes around 10:30 AM EST.

 

[rooter1]

3G was down for me as well this morning. Roughly an hour and 15 minutes.

 

[cammykool]

About an hour here

 

[brotherswing]

I've been on wifi for the past eleven months or so, so I wouldn't have noticed. Calls and SMS, however are fine.

 

[350X]

"NOAA and NASA have both predicted that if a large solar storm such as that which hit the U.S. in 1859, it could cause devestating problems for the entire world. From the article about 1859, "Telegraph systems all over Europe and North America failed, in some cases even shocking telegraph operators.[6] Telegraph pylons threw sparks and telegraph paper spontaneously caught fire.[7] Some telegraph systems appeared to continue to send and receive messages despite having been disconnected from their power supplies.[8]".

In 1989, another solar storm took out the a large power grid in the northeastern U.S. and Quebeck areas.
"

 

[koopakid08]

My 3G was fine today but my wireless radio for my home Internet had issues getting a connection this morning.

 

[evilkittypro]

I had no interruption in service while this storm was going on. I did notice that my signal was not as strong though.

 

[cammykool]

mine has been on and off...

 

[musiciansapp]

I've had no problems, never noticed anything....

 

[Guian]

Itermittant outages on some networks so far.

 

[AndyOpie150]

My voice mail is now the virgin mobile help line.

 

[brotherswing]

I had that with Quattrimus, but not on BACKside.

 

[McNerdius]

My voice mail is now the virgin mobile help line.

I had that with Quattrimus, but not on BACKside.

*scratches head*

a weird problem... in a weird thread.

weird.

or is it just me ?

 

[AndyOpie150]

It happened on BACKside so I flashed my Harmonius Bumblebee backup and it happened with it as well.I know it must have been caused by the flare up because hardly anyone else mentioned the same problem.

 

[killer14321]

mine was out for two days when that happend i couldnt text or use the web buttt i could call people