RE: what will all you who work for private isp's be doing in a few years?
Title: Re: what will all you who work for private isp's be doing in a few years? I have to second this one, having used Comcast and qwest. I look for the small guy, they have something to loss if I drop them and switch. I also like that I can drive down to there office and sit on someone's desk if I am not getting the service I want. Shaun From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Adam Jacob MullerSent: Wed 5/11/2005 12:33 PMTo: Matt BazanCc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: what will all you who work for private isp's be doing in a few years? It's simple,A DSL provider like speakeasy offers much more to a technical userlike myself than Comcast does, plus they have an incentive to keep mehappy, if i'm not i can leave and go with a competitor, comcast does,and has on many occasions, simply told me to go f*ck myself when ihave service issues. (Sorry your modem died sir, the next we can geta tech out to your place is 2 weeks, when i don't need a tech I knowwhat it means when a modem has a failure code).The fact is, DSL is a competitive market, Cable is not, competitivemarkets keep customers happy, monopolies anger people.AdamOn May 11, 2005, at 2:08 PM, Matt Bazan wrote: why in the world would anyone want to purchase dsl from a private reseller when i can get 4mb down 384 up from comcast for $25? think you dsl resellers out there are doomed. in fact, just a matter of time before most of you isps are down the toilet. im reminded of the mom and pop grocery store phenomenon that has now been replaced by the kohls, ap, whole foods etc. of course there will always be niche markets but this is less applicable for a pure commodity like bandwidth. yeah, i suppose you'll say something about value added services and such and you may have a point but i doubt that will keep the ship afloat for long. !DSPAM:42824b1926542573616784!
RE: They all suck! Re: UPS failure modes (was: fire at NAC)
One thing people seam to have forgotten is that with added redundancy comes added complexity that is many cases out ways the gain. Shaun -Original Message- From: Alex Rubenstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 1:40 PM To: Sean Donelan Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: They all suck! Re: UPS failure modes (was: fire at NAC) UPSes (and UPS batteries) do fail, sometimes in catastrophic ways. I would not design any critical system on the assumption that any particular component won't fail. High availability is about designing for failure. Sometimes there is a long time between failures, other times they occur early and often. The most annoying thing about UPSes is they fail at exactly the time they are needed most. Except, that: Even in instances where 'High availability' is designed, in the case where one of the units has a failure that causes a fire and FM200 dump, either the FM200 will still trigger an EPO, or the fire department will. So, the second 'high available' unit will generally not prevent you from dropping the critical load, but instead, will help you get back on line quicker. A much cheaper and easier to implement external maintenance make-before-break bypass will accomplish the same thing. I've heard many a story of the paralleling gear causing the problem in the first place, as well... -- Alex Rubenstein, AR97, K2AHR, [EMAIL PROTECTED], latency, Al Reuben -- --Net Access Corporation, 800-NET-ME-36, http://www.nac.net --
E-bay problem.
Does anyone have a security contact at ebay that can be reached at this hour? Thanks Shaun
Cisco fixup for SMTP (Mail Guard)
I am currently working on a high volume mail project. The question came up whether or not the run Cisco's SMTP fixup protocol. I am looking for any experiences good or bad. Please respond off list Thanks Shaun Bryant - Shaun Bryant E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The biggest problems happen when one of the little things that we take for granted stops working for a second They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.-Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. -
