On 19 Jul 98, at 17:06, Suzanne wrote:
> gets, I'm sure Eric would have researched his colocation site very
> carefully. I believe that they said it's in the same building or "right on
Oooh... very bad assumption. Assume only as a last resort. Countless
mistakes are made that way. Verify or ask for verification. If he really did
investigate then he should have published what he found; it would be very
interesting.
And things change. I have 2 internet connections. Sometimes one or the other
is better. This often happens because they fluctuate between number of
customers and bandwidth, and ports (and probably much more). An ISP can
buy 10 more modems and so you can connect all the time. But then they can
add 100 customers and suddenly, for no good reason, you are getting busy
signals. And they may add a T-1 and then they will slowly add customers and
pretty soon your connection may just not seem as fast anymore.
The ISP or co-location facility should publish their standards. Something along
these lines:
We will always have at least 8 customers for each modem (or port I guess).
About bandwidth I am not familiar with the reality but I can imagine it: If our
max bandwidth is ever reached for more than 30% of the day then we will
increase our bandwidth. Something like that. This should be written down and
then there should be proof that it is actually happening.
You might want to use my webping. The url you register is checked every hour
and if the page is not returned within the time-out period then you get sent an
email. There is also a log file generated which you can see online.
http://www.rede.com/webping/index.html
I am going to begin to record the time between a request and a response. Of
course I plan on doing a lot of things.
Peter
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