On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 21:38 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: > Ross Drummond wrote: > > >The head scratcher for me is how it affected my ISP Snap. > > > >My understanding is that their upstream provider is TelstraClear. My traffic > >should have been routed via TelstraClears' fibre optic cable which runs > >alongside the North Island Main Trunk Railway. Straight past the breaks in > >Telecom Network and out into the wide world via the international gateway. > > > >I could not get any international sites. NZ sites should mostly have been > >unreachable becuase they most likely hooked up via Telecom, but > >international > >sites?? > > > >Cheers Ross Drummond > > > >On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 20:46, Steve Holdoway wrote: > > > > > >>What I can't believe is that there was no redundancy, given that the > >>fibre infrastructure was designed for it. Was it designed like the > >>Shuttle... lowest bid got the contract? Two cable breaks, one on each > >>island, took out all of the Telecom internet, chunks of the mobile > >>network, and eftpos! > >> > >> > > > > > > > I'm on Telstra Clear at work, and there was no outage. Questions should > be asked!
paradise adsl (owned by TC of course) at work continued unabated, including international traffic. the people i share offices with are on xtra adsl, and were out home adsl on orcon was down, came back up sometime around 4-5 pm. > > Steve -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
