On 17-May-06 Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 07:43 +0100, Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:
That's the most drastic experience of MaxDSL I've heard of as yet. Been on it myself since the 1st week of April, with all sorts of issues -- but nothing comparable to being knocked out altogether for the best part of a week!
Any more gory details, Wayne?
Yes a few.
At the time my link failed (3PM on Friday) our office went down as well (which is with a different ISP) We quickly found out that almost every client (across different ISP's) we have on EABSE had lost connection.
We responded by moving to our emergency office suite (The Dog and Partridge) where there is wireless internet (not provided by ADSL) and more importantly an almost unlimited supply of refreshing drinks (it's important to keep your energy levels up in a crisis)
Our office and all but 2 clients came back late Friday (but by then we'd had too many "refreshing drinks" to care)
I discovered Saturday morning that most of the clients that had come back were now ADSL syncing at MaxDSL rates. One of the two remaining broken clients came back first thing Monday (again now syncing at MaxDSL) The two connections on Plusnet (one client and myself) were broken until I got home last night, and they have come back at 2Mb/s.
In the meantime I have been told that a BT engineer is visiting to look at a line fault near my house. It's had to get any sense out of BT when you are talking through PlusNet Support (some would argue that it's hard to get any sense out of BT period) but the general theory is that there is a fault on my line that may have prevented MaxDSL from working. My theory is that something horrible happened during the MaxDSL upgrade (dead ports on the DSLAM or something) and BT are on a wild goose chase looking at the local line for a fault that I am sure is at the exchange.
We will see when the BT bod plugs in his TDR on Thursday.
Wow! That's quite a saga!
And what sink rate were you getting at the Dog & Partridge? (Msips/sec)
Cheers, Ted.
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