On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Laurence Chiu wrote:

> I visited a friend recently in the Bay Area. His DSL was pretty good - I was
> on each day for over two weeks and never really experienced slowdowns.

That has been my, and my colleague's experience of the service in the past
year.

I have had outages, not as speedily resolved as I would like on occasion,
but the resolution was conclusive in each case, and my DSL router has an
uptime of 9 months now with no problems. The last outage was caused by a
Pacific Gas and Energy substation going down for two hours and taking out
my DSLAM, necessitating replacement.

I expect a similiar level of reliability from the NZ DSL service.

> I also visited a brother in LA who had cable from Roadrunner(?) - it was
> also pretty good

The prevailing current opinion here is that cable has the performance edge
(for the moment, of course!).

--
Josh Bailey (josh@vandervecken.com - Berkeley CA, USA)
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