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From: Sean Glasspool <s.glasspool_at_braemac.co.nz>
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 15:44:18 +1300
Message-ID: <LOBBIBPAONGOGDAFKENJCEMFCCAA.s.glasspool@braemac.co.nz>

Full rate ADSL hasn't even been ratified as an international standard yet.
And telecoms ADSL is RADSL which is a non-standard form of ADSL.

Sean Glasspool
Account Manager
mailto:s.glasspool@braemac.co.nz

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-adsl@unixathome.org [mailto:owner-adsl@unixathome.org] On
Behalf Of Jeremy Brooking
Sent: Thursday, 9 November 2000 13:52
To: jonathan@mosen.org; Broadband List
Subject: RE: Reliability

Well my 'personal' feelings are...

Due to the lack of reliability (and yes i understand that telecom are trying
to fix these issues) of ADSL being effectively as good as a BETA product..
Consumers should be being charged a BETA rate.

How can Telecom expect the public to pay Top dollar when the service isnt
Top rate?

%> -----Original Message-----
%> From: owner-adsl@unixathome.org [mailto:owner-adsl@unixathome.org]On
%> Behalf Of Jonathan Mosen
%> Sent: Thursday, 9 November 2000 1:24 p.m.
%> To: Broadband List
%> Subject: RE: Reliability
%>
%>
%> I just received the latest issue of Consumer Magazine. They want
%> people to
%> write to editor@consuemr.org and give them feedback on their Internet
%> services. They specifically say they would like to hear from users of
%> broadband services. I will certainly be writing to tell them that in the
%> case of Jetstream, there are too many outages and it's over-priced simply
%> because where I live, Telecom doesn't have Saturn to keep them
%> honest. As a
%> former Saturn customer when I lived in Wellington, I can say
%> that Saturn has
%> its problems. I waited a long time on many calls to the call centre. But
%> their broadband was one hell of a lot more reliable than this. I can only
%> recall 3 outages in a year of using Saturn cable with Paradise.
%>
%> Jonathan Mosen
%> Via MSN Messenger or mailto:jonathan@mosen.org
%> Work Phone: +64-6-348-8127
%> Mobile: +64-21-4Mosen, +64-21-466-736
%>
%> -----Original Message-----
%> From: owner-adsl@unixathome.org [mailto:owner-adsl@unixathome.org]On
%> Behalf Of Neal Blackie
%> Sent: Thursday, 9 November 2000 13:07
%> To: ADSL mailing list (E-mail)
%> Subject: Reliability
%>
%>
%> After yet another outage, I feel I must say my piece.
%>
%> I work in Christchurch for a company based in Belgium, looking
%> after between
%> 35 and 50 servers, depending on time of day. I am on call 24
%> hours. If my
%> ADSL connection is down I have to phone a workmate in Brussels
%> and get him
%> out of bed to do my work for me. My boss is getting annoyed and
%> now my job
%> is on the line.
%>
%> Yes I know that the ADSL service is "best effort" and not guaranteed.
%> However I need about 256k of bandwidth, 24 hrs and he tells me that if he
%> had to pay more money for a different type of connection, eg
%> leased line, he
%> will get someone else to do it. If anyone knows of another option at a
%> similar cost to ADSL, I would like to hear about it.
%>
%> The reasons for the outages are not made clear to me. If they
%> are genuine
%> failures of key equipment (routers, servers etc) then I would
%> like to know
%> why there are not redundant systems. If it is human error, what are our
%> assurances that it will not happen again?
%>
%> Neal Blackie.
%>
%>
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