dsl outage?

[Jamon Camisso]

Madison Kelly wrote:
> Dave Cramer wrote:
>> Well, ultimately all DSL is from bell, so they are all connected.
>>
>> --dc--
>> On 3-Aug-08, at 1:00 PM, Neil Watson wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 12:53:25PM -0400, Madison Kelly wrote:
>>>> Ya, no idea why. Seemed pretty random, too. Some sites were more  
>>>> responsive then others, but nothing worked well. What ISP are you 
>>>> on,  Sympatico?
>>>
>>> I am with Primus.  My connection was completely down.
> 
> Indeed, they all go through Bell's concentrator and deep packet analysis 
> machine. Given that Neil's connection is through Primus, and I am going 
> through Interlink (another reseller), it does seem to indicate an issue 
> with Bell.
> 
> During the problem, I checked my sync rate and it was fine, so the 
> problem wasn't the last mile. Also, I run my own, patched DNS servers, 
> so I don't think it was a DNS issue directly unless it was somewhat 
> upstream.
> 
> Given that some sites were better than others and the throttling coming 
> and going, I worry that they were playing with restricting access to 
> specific sites. I found serious trouble accessing some high-bandwidth 
> sites like deviantart.com.
> 
> Madi, who admits to being paranoid about bell's view of net neutrality.

Primus have their own DSLAMs in some locations. There was a thread on 
dslreports about users wanting teksavvy to rent ports on primus' 
equipment: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20280388-TSI-using-Primus-DSLAMS

Jamon
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