AT&T outage hits Mount Pleasant after contractor causes fiber cut - Post and Courier
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Accidental damage to underground cables is a blunt reminder of how fragile home internet really is. Even the fastest modern connections depend on physical lines running beneath our streets and sidewalks. When one of these main lines gets severed during nearby construction work, hundreds of households can lose their connection in an instant, halting remote work, online classes, and daily streaming.
If your internet suddenly stops, start by looking at the lights on your main gateway or modem. A solid or blinking red broadband light usually means no signal is reaching your home from the street. Before you waste time resetting your computers or tweaking network settings, disconnect your phone from Wi-Fi and use your cellular data to check your provider account for local service alerts. Physical line damage cannot be resolved from inside your house, so power-cycling your router will not bring it back.
When an outage comes down to damaged infrastructure, your best immediate move is switching to a phone hotspot until field technicians can safely piece the connection back together.
- Run a quick speed test — get concrete numbers before assuming it's your ISP.
- Open the Down Detector board to see which major services are actually having issues right now.
- If numbers look off, walk through the Fix-My-Internet checklist — most issues clear in the first two steps.