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On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Jules Richardson wrote:

> On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 23:47 +0000, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
> > I am loath to say this, because I will almost certainly have massive
> > downtime tomorrow...
> >
> > I am on (nominally) dynamic IP space, on NTL cable.  My IP address has
> > changed once, when I changed MAC addresses (built my firewall machine).
> >   My uptime has been better than the 8-grand-per-month leased line we
> > had at my old job.
>
> <rant>
> Hmm. My NTL cable crapped out weekend before last and started dropping
> 50% of packets. Then it worked for 5 days, then started doing the same
> again on Friday. Saturday the link was totally dead apart from 5 minutes
> where it came back, Sunday it actually came back properly for 3 hours or
> so, then did an hour of dropping 50% of data again, then fell over
> completely. This morning it's up and running 100% again, but I don't
> know for how long.
>
> I'd expect a big company like NTL to have all sort of network monitoring
> to detect this kind of thing and replace hardware at the first sign of
> trouble (asking around, it's not just me and is affecting a fairly wide
> area).

I had the same problem with my local carrier (SBC, one of the biggies,
just bought AT&T, etc.)  You'd think these idiots would know when one of
their servers was acting up, but no, it took several useless calls to tech
"support" talking to people in India that really don't know what they're
doing before I was finally connected to someone who knew what to do to fix
the problem.  I was down three times in 5 days thanks to a malfunctioning
router.  I'm not yet convinced the problem is fixed (it was intermittent)
but we'll see.

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