> But I've already lost two goes at downloading the zarafa source code - a mere > 2 megabytes. And it's starting to piss me off royally. I'll probably ring up both telstraclear and telecom in the morning and give them rockets about their incompetence.
But it was mentioned on either /. or LWN earlier today, I can't remember which. So I'm not at all surprised that the connection is flakey. I'll get it for you if you want. On 9/20/08, Wesley Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 22:09:24 +1200 >> Wesley Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > 203.96.152.127: icmp_seq=36 ttl=55 time=13589 ms >> > 64 bytes from www.paradise.net.nz (203.96.152.127): icmp_seq=37 ttl=55 >> >> > time=14956 ms >> > >> > Anybody else getting this sort of crap from paradise.net.nz? >> > >> > I've been getting it for two nights now, and I'm getting sick of it. >> > >> > Wesley Parish >> Does ifconfig show any errors, or does a 3 fingered salute to the router >> help?? > > I'm on dialup - one of the people supporting telstra-clear's gambling on the > investment markets and government bailouts, I expect. > > ifconfig: > > ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol > inet addr:210.246.27.44 P-t-P:202.0.46.83 Mask:255.255.255.255 > UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:1159 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:1379 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:3 > RX bytes:641637 (626.5 KiB) TX bytes:196778 (192.1 KiB) > > Looks okay to me. I'm thinking it's probably also telecom's gambling on the > investment markets and government bailouts - ie, their total lack of > interest in > maintaining their copper megamiles for which they are so happy to take an > arm > and a leg for. > > But I've already lost two goes at downloading the zarafa source code - a > mere 2 > megabytes. And it's starting to piss me off royally. I'll probably ring up > both telstraclear and telecom in the morning and give them rockets about > their > incompetence. > > Wesley Parish >> >> -- >> Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > > > > "Sharpened hands are happy hands. > "Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands" > - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge > > "I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!" > I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the > other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press > -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
