[swinog] More Speed with ADSL

2006-01-11 Thread Jon Nicholas
About time Swisscom. I live in France and for several months now I have had, from France Telecom, 8Mbps down and 800kbps upload for €30 per month. And its real; I have downloaded files at 7Mbps. My colleagues who live in Switzerland hate me for it. Jonathan Safe Host SA Geneva -Origi

[swinog] Cern power outage

2006-07-29 Thread Jon Nicholas
Yes we noticed - if I'm not mistaken its the third time this year. We lost our IP-Plus connection as a result. But when I called the Swisscom IP-plus Helpdesk at 10:15 this morning they denied there was any problem. Regards Jonathan Safe Host - Geneva

Re: [swinog] KVM-over-IP

2008-01-22 Thread Jon Nicholas
Hi, Just a 2-penny worth from Geneva. We looked at three makes of IP-KVMs last year and came to the following conclusions: Rittal and HP. Both use a Java Interface which is a) incomprehensible and b) unreliable. We couldn't set the keyboard type (Swiss keyboard is standard here) and the mouse d