I agree with you comments on the things that cause a loss of service.

My argument it the system should be designed such that there is ALWAYS a
backup.

Look just how much of NZ has been without power at various times because
there are no backups.

Services such as power, water and phone should NEVER EVER have any outages.

Sad fact is I get about one a week for power and one a month for phone..
Well isn't this such a great country.. Ho Hum..

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeremy Brooking" <jeremy@morenet.net.nz>
To: <adsl@lists.unixathome.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 3:52 PM
Subject: Re: Dropped Connection

> On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 15:35, Steven Ellis wrote:
> > It should be the same for Water and Electric. You don't have any choice.
> > There is one supplier to your house/street/city.
> >
> > Even if you switch electric suppliers you still only have one cable.
That
> > service should be guaranteed or you should have the option to go
elsewhere.
>
> And when some drunk hits a powerpole? Dont you lose service. Or when
> council workers dig up waterpipes? Dont you loose service. Some big
> power cable fails, dont you again loose service? Basically what you are
> saying, is crap. Those services do have outages, its just they have had
> their infrastructure in for decades, they have had decades to work out
> the bugs... of course the service is going to be more stable.
>
> You pay peanuts, you get a monkey, its that simple. If you want a SLA
> with a garenteed 24/7 uptime, you CAN get it, you just have to pay for
> it.
>
> Telecom offer jetwhatever as a 'Best Effort service' Their best effort
> could be up 1 hour out of each week, but you are still getting what you
> pay for.
>
> Im sure there are numerous companys who could offer you other solutions,
> but im also sure by your whinging you are not prepared to pay for it.
>
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