[67970] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: How relable does the Internet need to be? (Was: Re: Converged Network Threat)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Knoblauch)
Thu Feb 26 15:26:47 2004
From: "Brian Knoblauch" <bknoblauch@sscorp.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 15:22:37 -0500
In-Reply-To: <Nj20w4AuniPAFwAU@uklaptop.internetpolicyagency.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
=09I don't post much as I'm mostly on here to learn and have little I
can contribute, but...
=09While following all the discussions, I wonder if there's too many
people here that work at large highly redundant facilities and live in
expensive areas with new circuits. I don't believe the rest of the world=
has such high expectations. I live in a typical USA '70s era neighborhoo=
d
and have (this year) had nearly 2 full days without power (not counting t=
hat
nationwide blackout thing, and not even guessing how many 1-2 hour power
losses), 4 or 5 days without dialtone (multiple episodes lasting over a d=
ay
each, also suffering static on the line everytime it rains), and had the
cable modem down for 3 days straight (was up MOST of the time the power w=
as
out. As a side note, tried a BRI, but cancelled after the phone company
couldn't keep it up more than 50% of the time). We're used to it, that's=
just life in this city. Cell phone coverage is good in the cities, howev=
er
the stretches in between, the cell phone is just a paper weight. Just la=
st
night, we had 2 T-1s down for 5.5 hours here at work (I must say though,
reliability at work has GREATLY improved the last couple of years!)... I=
can go on and on about this, but won't as this whole thing is really
stretching the limits of "network related" now ;-)
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