At 08:32 PM +0200 10/22/2005, Kim Gammelgård top posted:
70-80% uptime means that you cannot get a connection between 73 and 110 days per year! And at even 95% you speak of downtime of more than 18 days per year!
Beware the FCC's trap... They count any outtage that lasts more than a few minutes as being a full day. I expect the real uptime figures, as the IT industry itself figures it, are 90+ %. ...*smirk* The FCC also considers any service to be "broadband" if it does 200 Kbps or more.
I am certain that there would be an outcry if we reached those levels of downtime here, and that goes for both ADSL and cable modems.
Here in the US, there is a big distinction between business-grade service, with QoS guarentees, and "best-effort" residential service.
This whole push about residential service reliability didn't become an issue until people started suiing over VoIP outtages.
I'll pull the history when I'm back on that machine. The data all came from fcc.gov, FWIW.
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