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Re: 128Kb/s Upstream Throttles 2Mb/s downstream

From: Steve Phillips <steve_at_focb.co.nz>
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 23:49:03 +1300
Message-ID: <435A191F.1040708@focb.co.nz>

Joel Wiramu Pauling wrote:
> Your probably right. It's probably testament to the adage a little bit
> of knowledge is a dangerous thing.

More like "A little missinformation goes a long way of making yourself
look like an idiot."

> I spose I'm just annoyed at continually getting the run around. I am
> fairly demanding yes,

Understatement of the month I believe.

> but generally only in response to inadequate handling.

Or due to your own lack of knowledge, especially when coupled with the
false belief that you do actually know what yer talking about.

> If you screw up as an ISP/Telco, just because you are big does
> not give you the right to ignore or not go out of your way to fix said
> problem.

You're right, small businesses do this quite a lot too..

> There is definitely an attitude of "We can get away with this,
> people won't notice, won't mind, do stuff ask later" in this industry
> and that's not right. Legally and/morally. Yes it might be
> "economically" efficient but what happened to "putting it right"?

Please stop smoking those drugs.

-- 
Steve.
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