HE.Net Quotes? - t1s - outages

Fri May 30 02:28:04 PDT 2003

hi ya roy

On Fri, 30 May 2003, Roy S. Rapoport wrote:

> On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 05:42:54PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
> 
> FWIW, I don't know what DSL provider you're monitoring, but they should
> be fired.
> 
> In 2002, when I was using PacBell as my DSL provider, I had no outages.
> In 2003 I switched over to cliq.com and I've had no outages with them
> either. 

i think it depends on where the dsl lines are terminated

- downtown sj was very unreliable about 3 years ago, while saratoga
  dsl was very stable
	- redback and pacbell was pointing fingers to each other

- now, last year or so, the dsl in saratoga is very unreliable .. weekly 2
  hr outages is not uncommon ..

- another dsl around sj airport was very stable ... but the company went
  poof in the *.com bust

- another dsl in north sj area was stable for 6 months and unstable the
  last 6 months

- while monitoring machines in other countries is fine
	- i (scriptized) monitor all machines at the same time ..
	one after another ... so it's not the monitoring app

most all of these were pacbell dsl w/ pacbell as the isp
( they picked all their network setup/lan/services etc before i showed up

for anything like dns/web ... i would NOT be using dsl ...
and for email, one could use MX records to get around those outage
problems if you like to go chasing after your important new incoming email
you needed an hr ago

> As supporting evidence, I give you
> http://stats.inorganic.org/?rtr=MailStats.cfg&xgtype=m&if=MailStats_inout
> -- a graph of incoming/outgoing mail messages on my system.  Other than

if you've been getting good service... all the better for you

have fun
alvin