This on the Orcon Site.

"SYSTEM STATUS
Sat 11 Oct, 11:50pm: Telecom had a fault with an optical cable interrupting
International traffic for approximately 50 minutes.

Sun 12 Oct: There seems to be a problem within the Telecom network causing
slowness and packet loss for Jetstart customers. No ETA has been given by
Telecom.

I'm on Orcon and there is virtually nothing coming down except Email..

At 01:57 PM 10/12/2003, Frits Schouten wrote:

>I think the problem is with Orcon. Packages are lost left, right and centre.
>They better get their act together.
>
>Frits.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "DumKopf" <jonoco@i4free.co.nz>
>To: "Frits Schouten" <fritss@ps.gen.nz>; "ADSL List"
><adsl@lists.unixathome.org>
>Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2003 1:36 PM
>Subject: Re: JetStream speed?
>
>
> > Paradise was working at that speed lastnight.. Even trying both my
>accounts
> > with them. I couldn't connect at about 20:20 for about 5 minutes, then
>when
> > it connected again it was back to normal speeds. Was it with the Paradise
> > network?
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Frits Schouten" <fritss@ps.gen.nz>
> > To: "ADSL List" <adsl@lists.unixathome.org>
> > Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2003 12:02 PM
> > Subject: JetStream speed?
> >
> >
> > > Just a loose observation.
> > > Not much point having a broadband connection when the average throughput
> > is
> > > around the 2kb/s mark.
> > > What's happening on the net?
> > >
> > > Frits.
> > >
> > >
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Regards,

Paul Warner

paul.warner@bigfoot.com

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