On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 08:22:53PM -0000, D. J. Bernstein wrote:
> UIC is paying its ISP for a measly 14Mbps. UIC has been hitting this
> limit more and more frequently since the beginning of September. The
> packet-loss rate averages over 2% now, even if you don't count the
> recent 30-hour outage, and hits 25% at busy times.
>
> UIC's computer center is an independently operated profit-making
> enterprise. It has no incentive to pay for adequate network service.
> Maybe the router is being flooded by some easily fixed source of
> traffic; the computer center won't even bother investigating.
I wonder why you are still at UIC... Universities are interesting: we
recently got rewired to 100Mbps. But the rewiring started in the
Admin building, and the mathsci building was rewired 2 years after.
Mate
