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Re: London incidents

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Mon Jul 11 16:38:54 2005

Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 16:36:38 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <OFAB2865C7.37A0F047-ON8025703B.003DFB03-8025703B.003F5105@radianz.com>; from Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com on Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 12:31:35PM +0100
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On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 12:31:35PM +0100, Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com wrote:
> It was an interesting experience which seems to show that
> it is better to have several completely different communications
> channels to choose from. In my case I had lost landline and
> DSL Internet access due to moving house, and I lost mobile 
> voice access due to congestion. But SMS still functioned.

The lower the bandwidth channel, the less likely it is to break.

Cheers,
-- jr 'cf: Morse Code' a
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