Re: [cobalt-users] What would you do

[Jay Tingley <jayt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

[ Jeff Lasman writes... ]

> While I stand by my comments, of course I admit they're based on my own
> experience, and the experience of my peers (some of them from the
> inet-access list, which admittedly, is mostly techs at full-service
> ISPs).

Our ISP was one of the first companies in North America to offer
DSL, so if anything, I've been the preverbial "guinea pig" for
the past 4+ years.
 
> For example, our sDSL went down for 22 hours one evening without notice,
> and when it went back up, they renumbered our network <frown>.  We had
> nameservers offline for several days because of this (they were only
> backups, but ...).  The very next day it went down again for 17 hours.

We had an outage of 1 hour 2 weeks ago when they replaced a router.
 
> I've heard that DSL is taken much more seriously in Canada.  You're
> lucky <smile>.

Yes, well, having a phone monopoloy does have it's advantages
(don't ask about long distance rates...)
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Jay Tingley
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