On Oct 28, 2005, at 00:51, Charles Martin wrote:
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kim_Gammelg=E5rd?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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!
Thanks for saving me the trouble of pointing out that Dan's claims are
a load of bollocks. While Dan is probably right that there are small
outages in my service that I've never noticed (since I'm not on the
net 24/7), my guess is that the figures he Googled up are seriously
out of date.
To have even just 70 days a year's worth of outages, you'd have to
have a DAILY AVERAGE of a little over four and a half hours worth of
outage.
While I'm not monitoring the stuff 24 hours a day, I think I'd notice
an average of 4.5 hours per day in downtime. As I said, I've been on
our local cable connection since the first day they offered high
speed, and I can count the number of non-emergency downtime hours on
this system using only my fingers and toes -- not bad for over five
years.
Now, Adelphia ... they serve another part of town, they could be a
different story :)
I know for a fact that my cable modem is not down for an hour & a half
every day. My home LAN is on a VPN to my employer's network, and my
VPN router is one of the boxes pinged every minute (or 5 minutes or
something). It goes typically down only once a month -- for no more
than 5 minutes.
This is with Earthlink cable via Time Warner.
Daniel
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