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RE: ADSL outages

From: Aaron Martin <aaronm_at_firesecurity.co.nz>
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 11:19:14 +1300
Message-ID: <41A8438F3C8BD31194F800902773BB1502B95F@SERVER>

Does anyone have any experience with World-Net outages? I have been with
world-net for about 2 months now and haven't noticed any outages (although I
am usually on the jetstream games context)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve [mailto:steve@focb.iconz.co.nz]
> Sent: Monday, 6 March 2000 10:56
> To: Aaron Martin
> Cc: 'adsl@freebsddiary.cx'
> Subject: Re: ADSL outages
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Aaron Martin wrote:
>
> > How often does ADSL have outages? When was the last one
> and how long did it
> > last for?
> >
> >
>
> we have recently had two outages that affected a number of
> different ISP's
> in different ways that i am aware of - one lasted for around 5 working
> days, the other was around 2 days - for us (iconz) it only
> affected our
> static ADSL customers - other isp's had differing effects
>
> other isp's however have had other outages that affected them
> - most of
> these outages were attributed to the ADSL network which the
> ISP's have no
> control over and getting telecom to do anything quickly to fix these
> problems is a painful process, however they are supposed to
> be working to
> fix these problems.. progress on this i guess will need to
> wait til the
> next outage to be seen.. wonder if we will be informed next
> time of any
> upcoming upgrades/changes to the DSL network - even if telecom dont
> *think* it will affect the service..
>
> on the positive side however Mark and his JetStream helpdesk team are
> great to talk to and the Telecom techs, once you get hold of
> one of them
> are also quite helpful, i think most of the problem is the telecom
> corporate monster and the interaction between departments :)
>
> --
> Steve.
>

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