At 1pm, MCI WorldCom had all MFS service restored that was in or passed through White Plains. It turns out it wasn't a fiber cut. The building they are located in (One North Broadway, which in addition to being a regular office tower includes POPs for pre-WorldCom MCI, MFS, and seemingly Nextel) was having electrical work performed by the building management. They had to shut down the entire building's power to get this work done. I stopped by at 12pm, and the building's security guards said management notified tenants last month they they would have no electricity on 10/9. At 7 or 8am the power went off, and the MFS batteries failed at 9am. It took four hours to get power back on. I guess they thought it was a fiber cut since the whole area simply went dark. At around 11am, they determined there was no electricity, and that the fiber was probably unhurt. Our C&W Internet service, which passes through the pre-WorldCom MCI POP in the same building, was unaffected. So either that facility has better batteries, or they did something to make sure that things would keep running today. -- Scott M. Drassinower scottd@cloud9.net Cloud 9 Consulting, Inc. White Plains, NY +1 914 696-4000 http://www.cloud9.net