Re: [SLUG] Re: Telstra ADSL and recurrent recurrent lost connections.

[Peter Chubb <peterc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> "Martin" == Martin  <writeme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Martin> On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Alan Lee wrote:
>> You know why it was out?  If you dont know why something like this is out, I
>> dont think you have any reason to scream and yell about it.  A few major
>> bits of their equipment was fried, in a storm in VICT.

Martin> People are NOT whinging about a single outage, it's just a single
Martin> example of poor service from many. Taken individually, it is probably
Martin> unfair to complain about any of them unless you know the
Martin> circumstances. Taken collectively, it's fine to whinge, because it
Martin> represents a poor service, whatever the reasons. Telstra sucks.

Actually, I find that most of the time I'm using the service (i.e.,
6.00am to around 4.00pm) it's fine.  But if I need to do something in
the evening, it's awful.  Any time after about 7.00pm transfers would
be faster if packets were carried by trained messenger tortoises.

Peter C