OT: Serious ISP problems....

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 11:15:16PM -0400, Valar wrote:
> You may have noticed I have not been doing a lot on either this forum or the
> new www.fptechforum.com this past couple of weeks. I've been having terrible
> ISP problems. Basically, they turn the service completely off for long
> periods of time like two hours and say it was for "maintenance". No warning,
> no schedule, just every night between 2 and 4am. (I would love to know if
> that is even legal for a large carrier, like this cable service, to do. )

This is why people still pay for T-1's, even though they're slower, and
often more expensive.

Check your contract; I suspect you'll find that if your loop is a
cablemodem, the service level agreement doesn't guarantee your uptime
at all... even if you're paying $300 a month for it.

Cheers,
-- jra
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