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AlienGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 04:16 AM
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ATMs are down all over town--solar storm effect?
Does anyone know if the ATMs aren't working because of the solar storm?

Tucker
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 04:17 AM
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1. what timezone are you in
could be routine computer maintenance.
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AlienGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 04:18 AM
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2. Pacific
It's 2:18 am. Tech support at the grocery store was flummoxed.

Tucker
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 04:19 AM
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3. My guess would be that the banks are doing the whole "batch processing"
thing, and thus can't do regular ATM transactions.
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AlienGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 04:21 AM
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4. How often do they do that?
The people at the grocery store called the ATM tech support line and they didn't have an answer for what's going on or how long it'd take...
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 04:23 AM
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5. I would think once a week
at the least, perhaps daily. I know the bank by phone service at my bank is unavailable from like 1:00 - 4:00 AM every day, Most banks still do not process transactions in real time, so things get moved to batch processing.
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Don Claybrook Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 08:01 AM
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13. Batch processing is usually once per day (night)
Batch settlement usually happens once, sometimes twice, per day. But debit authorizations are usually nearly instantaneous.

Whatever the problem with the ATM's in your city, I don't think it had anything to do with the 2nd largest card processor, since I work for them and my life would be miserable if that were the case.
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 08:11 AM
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16. Hey, I work for a card processor, too!
:hi:
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Don Claybrook Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 08:34 AM
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19. FDR??
I work for a processor in Louisville, KY. We were bought last year by a really big bank.

What sort of work do you do? I'm a network engineer.
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 08:36 AM
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20. I'm a QA analyst in the Base24 development group.
Not with FDR. ;)
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 08:08 AM
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14. Batch processing is done off-line.
It doesn't affect on-line transactions.
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Spinzonner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 04:26 AM
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6. Why not just a systems failure at the bank or in communications network

No need to involve extraterrestial causes
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 04:28 AM
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7. I take it you threw away your tinfoil hat!
:D
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Spinzonner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 04:29 AM
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8. Wouldn't make a difference

It's not wireless
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 04:30 AM
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9. ROFL
good one.
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Spinzonner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 05:15 AM
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11. Actually, you can make a respectable wireless antenna

from a Pringles can because of the lining.

Don't think it works at the higher speeds but ....
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 04:34 AM
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10. duh - I asked you what timezone
I should have figured it out since you have the Space Needle in your avatar.

Must be soon time to sleep.

:banghead:
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lpbk2713 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 07:40 AM
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12. The system power generator is down for maintenance.


Please Stand By.
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 08:10 AM
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15. If they are satellite-connected ATMs, it's *possible*
That said, it's unlikely. The ATMs are probably connected via TCP/IP (over essentially the same infrastructure via which your computer is connected to the internet) or SNA. Dedicated circuits, frame relay clouds, that kinda crap. Or dial-up connections.

There's probably a circuit down somewhere.
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 08:17 AM
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17. ...or overdrawn checking account?
:hi: Tucker
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johnnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 08:23 AM
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18. I just went to my ATM also
First it said that the machine is out of money, then when I tried to deposit some it sat there for about 2 minutes, then said that they could not process the transaction.
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