Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 14:54, Don Gould wrote:
The users will then get service from a corporate entity which is of
sufficient size to be able to actually provide a 'dial-tone' level of
reliability.
I wish that were true, but it's not.
You should be more careful what you say in a public forum such as this.
When it comes to Telstra there is no end of documented evidence that
they don't always step up to the mark. I've followed the company as an
interest for a number of years.
You were refering to 'a corporate entity'.
Since Telstra arrived in Christchurch, I have had 2 unscheduled breaks in
Cable Internet service, one fixed in about half an hour and the other in
about three and a half hours. That's close enough to 99.999% to be
a 'dial-tone' level of reliability as far as I'm concerned.
I'm glad to hear you've been so lucky with your service.
Recently I had people calling me and asking me if they had any idea why
their service was flakie... I refered to their service status page
where I found no answers... later I found out that there was issues.
However, this really is a side issue. Telstra stopped short of
delivering service in to the area. I have other customers who are in
their coverage area who have joined up with their service recently...
I'm not proposing building anything in those areas on the scale I am in
this one.
It's certainly very much better than what you will ever achieve with a
bundle of s/h computers and wireless links competing with microwave ovens
and cordless 'phones on the 2.4GHz band.
I'm quite sure it might be... but a bunch of s/h computers, wires and
wireless is going to be much better than the shocking dialup that the
suburb is forced to use at present.
Apart from the use of Debian as the o/s for the routers in the net, this
thread has no content whatsoever about the use of Linux. That makes it
unacceptably OFF TOPIC.
We'll now we've heard your view, I don't know why you responded to it
rather than letting it die.
Clearly the people on this list are interested in the topic because they
have responded to it.
It's time you got some filter software on your own machine and stopped
reading things that don't have the required Linux content for your viewing.
Don: Please set up your own list server. It's not difficult. Mailman or
Majordomo, and a standard mail server such as either Sendmail or Postfix
are all you need. If you cannot do it for yourself there are many list
members who will, I'm sure, help you.
I already have a forum system set up at www.tcn.bowenvale.co.nz where
people are welcome to discuss the issues.
I simply posted an outline of something I was proposing doing. People
choose to respond in this forum.
If people would prefer to take this discussion off list then they are
welcome, I will repond where ever I see questions and comments.
Cheers Don
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