One thing that grates me...
And perhaps members of adsl@ being of varying backgrounds can help...

As a helpdesk staffer I get the odd customer who likes to rant (for lack of
a better term) about how their lack of internet service is costing them
business/money...

Now.. I use the Internet a lot personally as well as for work (both my
major job and any behind the scenes stuff I do online). I do my best to
install some redundancy.

I have Dialups with 3 ISPs as well as my DSL...
When one ISP fails chances are another will work..

(I recognise that for email in particular, this is often a problem, but if
the need to surf to a site or email someone some info is high, I can go
around most problems.)

Its not necessarily elegant - esp when the other ISPs are on hourly-rate
connections - but it means that when push comes to shove I have an
alternative plan, instead of being tied to one ISP and its network state...

Why dont more people do this?

I would have thought especially with Jetstart, ADSL being marketted as a
'best effort' type service,... if its critical to your business, having
some form of redundancy would be important.. right?

At 18:37 5/03/02 +1300, John Morch wrote:
>Just saw your Post Paul.
>Contact me direct and i will tell you about 4 days of just about no
>Jetstream off the Birkenhead exchange.
>We have been unable to upload at least 6 customer web sites that are date
>critical unless we use dial up!!!!
>
>John
>
>
>>From: "Matthew" <gossard@xtra.co.nz>
>>To: <adsl@lists.unixathome.org>
>>Subject: Re: micro outages
>>Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 18:22:16 +1300
>>
>>I've *never* seen the speed i connect at (almost 8Mbit), even when i had
>>unlimited jetstream, the absolute maximum DUmeter would show me was
>>450KB/sec or so, no matter how many threads i opened, 450K/sec was my max.
>>
>>Can everyone test on the JSG realm their max speed using the ftp site ? (the
>>site may be throttled), but login like 3 or 4 times and see how fast you can
>>get your dsl going.
>>
>>Mine fully seems capped at 450KB/sec. I'm on the glenfield exchange.
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Wayne Kampjes" <Wayne.Kampjes@telecom.co.nz>
>>To: <jaidev@ihug.co.nz>; <adsl@lists.unixathome.org>
>>Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 3:03 PM
>>Subject: RE: micro outages
>>
>>
>> > THIS IS NOT TRUE! Telecom do not throttle the DSL and are careful that
>> > the ATM is provisioned to not have packet loss. Whoever told you that is
>> > WRONG! The only manipulation that is done to the connection is ATM rate
>> > limiting and policing for Jetstart customers.
>> >
>> > Cheers
>> > Wayne
>> >
>> > >>> Jaidev <jaidev@ihug.co.nz> 4/03/02 14:52:18 >>>
>> > I was told that Telecom were throttling the Nokia DSLAM boxes to
>> > 7mpbs+,
>> > When they should be 5mpbs, to allow for some bursting, but due to the
>> > DSLAM being over throttled, it drops the connection packets etc...
>> > Telecom were reconfiguring them to 5mpbs....don't know how many tho..
>> >
>> >
>> > __________________________________________
>> > Jaidev Patel
>> >
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: owner-adsl@unixathome.org [mailto:owner-adsl@unixathome.org] On
>> > Behalf Of Paul Brislen
>> > Sent: Monday, 4 March 2002 1:12 p.m.
>> > To: David McNab
>> > Cc: adsl@lists.unixathome.org
>> > Subject: micro outages
>> >
>> >
>> > Telecom announced that it had fixed the outages problem - yet I still
>> > see
>> > postings that seem to be about micro-outages.
>> >
>> > Anyone out there still experiencing them?
>> >
>> > Which exchange are you on?
>> >
>> > Anyone willing to be contacted for a story I'm doing today (monday) or
>> > tomorrow about this?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> >
>> > Paul Brislen
>> >
>> > IDGNet reporter
>> >
>>
>>
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