I'm getting slow speeds & unreliability myself, as of today. I have
however been connected on Bitstream using Orcon for about a couple of
weeks, with no prior problems... just tried calling their help desk to
see what was up but there was a 19 minute wait -- will hope it gets
better & try again later.

Andrew

Russell Fulton wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 13:53, Russell Fulton wrote:
>
>
>>I'm guessing that the two things are not related but would like to know
>>for sure. If they are related I'll stick on the phone until I get to
>>someone...
>
>
> This would appear to be the case. Later in the day Orcon had a message
> saying that there was a Telecom ADSL outage this morning.
>
> When I got home I had another try with bitstream and in connected
> without a hitch <shrug>.
>
> I see my down stream speed is now 320 and upstream is 160Kpbs and I have
> an IP address that APNIC says is allocated to Orcon, so I definitely am
> on Bitstream.
>
> The only fly in the ointment is that the download speeds (for FTP of
> files over 1MB) stay at about 17KBps rather than something nearer 30KBps
> that I had expected.
>
> Any clues? Before I start asking Orcon...
>

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