On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 12:36:22 -0400
Bob Camp li...@rtty.us wrote:
I had an interesting conversation with an advanced tech support supervisor
at Century Link / Embarq. According to this gentleman, their lines are only
guaranteed to pass port 80 traffic (HTTP). Anything other than that is not
On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 13:25:55 -0400
Bob Camp li...@rtty.us wrote:
I suspect that it's not an unusual stance. If it is common, it would be
something to think long and hard about in a mission critical timing setup.
I don't know about the US, but in Europe such a stance would cost
an ISP most of
, September 2, 2010 12:36:56 AM
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Off Topic in the Extreme
On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 13:25:55 -0400
Bob Camp li...@rtty.us wrote:
I suspect that it's not an unusual stance. If it is common, it would be
something to think long and hard about in a mission critical timing setup
With Verizon Fios, I have had several instances where a storm has
knocked out my internet, yet my phone, which uses the same fiber,
still works. (Yes, my router was on an ups, and yes the power was
on...)
The internet usually comes back in a day, or so.
Because they have seriously limited the
Hi
The troubling part of my situation with Century / Embarq is that a hacked
router in their plant, doing port forwarding poorly, would do create the issue
I saw. The question now is - did they fix it or did the guy doing the
forwarding fix his bug? In my case he's going to be sifting through
11:41 PM
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Off Topic in the Extreme
Didier Juges wrote:
Not unlike Cox. They generally provide great service, but when problems do
crop up (rare, but it has happened), the only thing that they guaranty is
that you will get their bill in the mail on time. Any more
Hi
What the guy was telling me was that they don't want customers who care if
there's a connection or not. Since I do care, I won't be a Century Tel.
customer much longer. I would have switched on the spot, but reprograming the
routers takes a bit of time. Cisco IOS isn't my favorite thing to
Hi
In this case the company is the legacy monopoly wire line carrier for this
area. If you want coper wires you go to them. There is no other choice. They do
what ever the government regulators make them do. The supervisor referred to
those regulations in about every third sentence.
Century
...
Dave
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From: Attila Kinali att...@kinali.ch
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
time-nuts@febo.com
Sent: Thursday, September 2, 2010 12:36:56 AM
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Off Topic in the Extreme
On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 13:25:55 -0400
Bob Camp
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Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 09:36:40
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Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Off Topic in the Extreme
Hi
If your WiFi is at 2.4 GHz it could very
To: 'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement'
time-nuts@febo.com
Subject: [time-nuts] Off Topic in the Extreme
Hi
Back up again on email. It's completely unclear who or what took things
down. It's also unclear what fixed it. All I can be sure of is I neither
broke it or fixed it. It came
Hi
Back up again on email. It's completely unclear who or what took things
down. It's also unclear what fixed it. All I can be sure of is I neither
broke it or fixed it. It came back up today at around 10.
I had an interesting conversation with an advanced tech support supervisor
at
measurement
time-nuts@febo.com
Subject: [time-nuts] Off Topic in the Extreme
Hi
Back up again on email. It's completely unclear who or what took things
down. It's also unclear what fixed it. All I can be sure of is I neither
broke it or fixed it. It came back up today at around 10.
I had
, September 01, 2010 12:51 PM
To: Time-Nuts
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Off Topic in the Extreme
Not unlike Cox. They generally provide great service, but when problems do
crop up (rare, but it has happened), the only thing that they guaranty is
that you will get their bill in the mail on time. Any more
Didier Juges wrote:
Not unlike Cox. They generally provide great service, but when problems do crop
up (rare, but it has happened), the only thing that they guaranty is that you
will get their bill in the mail on time. Any more than that is just gravy...
Didier
This is the fundamental
of precise time and frequency measurement
time-nuts@febo.com
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 11:41 PM
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Off Topic in the Extreme
Didier Juges wrote:
Not unlike Cox. They generally provide great service, but when problems
do crop up (rare, but it has happened), the only
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