@home update

[Mark Szidik]

Thanks for the update.  I don't feel so bad about my DSL
connection anymore.  (it has been quite good except for the 3
weeks! it was down this summer).

I suppose you saw yesterdays /. article about some people dumping
broadband to go back to good old dial-up because its more
reliable!


-Mark

On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Edward Glowacki wrote:

> So I called last night to cancel my service and get my money back
> for the last month of my cable modem not working.  Well, they
> convinced me to stay by offering a free month of service, and since
> I already had a tech scheduled to come take a look at it today, I
> decided to give them a second chance.  So I dialed up to MSU, sent
> an email saying I wouldn't be in this morning so I could wait for
> the guy to show up, and didn't think anything of it.  Well, as I
> was climbing into bed, I noticed that my cable modem was back
> online... And it was still working this morning.  And it's still
> working now since I'm connected with it as I type.  So I get the
> suspicious feeling that the tech is going to come out here, find
> nothing wrong, go away, then tonight the damn thing is going to go
> down again and it'll be another month before someone can come fix
> it...
>
> I'm getting 12% packet loss and about 2% duplicate packets when
> pinging MSU.  When I downloaded an 11Mb file from campus, I was
> getting 230k/sec, but editing this email is very choppy and running
> CVSup to update my ports tree is going relatively slow...  Hmm...
> *ponder*
>
> Well, off to wait for the tech some more...
>
> --
> Edward Glowacki				glowack2@msu.edu
> GLLUG Peon  				http://www.gllug.org
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>                 -- Jules de Gaultier
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