Sympatico's record downtime

[Red Squirrel]

It was a great night, one of the few where I can go to bed late, so I was playing UO, planing to do so till like 3:00am since I was wide awake. Then 11:00PM hits. It becomes very laggy, and immediately freezes, and get the connection loss. Now, I was in my house when it happened, making scrolls, but I could have been in a dungeon, and died, and lost my stuff.

So I wait many hours, working on SquirrelBBS meanwhile. 1:00am hits, it's still down, by this time, my LAN server is extreemly slow, because linux has a horrible connection time out, so anything trying to access the internet continues trying for like 15 minutes, so you have all these processes overlaping on each other. I had to reboot to flush it all but 15 minutes later it was slow again.

So I go to bed, pissed off at sympatico for ruining a night.

Figured I'd get up early the next day, but it was 11:30 when I woke up so that did not work out. So I checked my fetchmail logs, and the first successful fetchmail that could connect to the internet was at 11:00am.

So this is a 12 hour downtime period by sympatico. Congratulations for officially breaking the 80% uptime!

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[jryan]

In all fairness Red, not thier fault. One of the major fiber lines got severed outside thier area and they were working feverishly to repair it.

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[Red Squirrel]

Oh I see so this time it's not their fault.. hmm I wonder if this is a problem that's been slowly developing, perhaps the cause of all the other downtime/slowdown/lag, etc.

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