Re: [SLUG] ADSL with modem failover - UNNECESSARY

["Gnuthad" <slug-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11 Aug 2001, at 16:14, blinddog wrote:

> On Saturday 11 August 2001 15:56, Gnuthad wrote:
> > On 11 Aug 2001, at 10:52, Bernhard Luder wrote:
> > > A good Idea for a business would be to get a 99% guaranteed uptime ADSL
> > > service, that makes a failover modem unnecessary.
> > That's 101 minutes a week, still too much for most businesses.....
> > Gnuthad
> 
> But you will find that most data services are only ever 99% - no one in the 
> industry guarentees 100%. Hence why a business should always have redundancy.

My point exactly, which is what makes the statement "that makes a 
failover modem unnecessary" seem a just a little thoughtless.
  Obviously, expecting a 100% uptime is unreasonable, is 99.9% 
unreasonable? Even the 0.5% that leaves should be protected by a 
redundant link. I doubt this provider refuses to use UPSes on their 
systems, but according to their statement, the power being up 99% of 
the time, makes a UPS unneccassary.

Gnuthad


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