dsl outage? - again this weekend?

[vertaxis]

Madison Kelly wrote:
> Herb Richter wrote:
>> Madison Kelly wrote:
>>> Neil Watson wrote:
>>>> Did anyone else suffer a dsl outage starting around 10am on Saturday
>>>> until around 4am Sunday?
>>>>
>>>
>>> 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?
>>
>> It seems that DSL in the 416 area is essentially down (86% packet 
>> loss) again this weekend - at least from about 11am Saturday.  ...I 
>> hope this is not to be a regular thing.
>>
>> I'm recently added DSL from Teksavvy whose teck support is terrific 
>> but MaBell seems to doing something.
>>
>> Herb Richter...
>>
>> P.S. can't believe I'd be happy that I still have Rogers cable ;-|
>
> Yeah, I was all but down again... I've been monitoring my sync rate 
> and over the weekend the downstream went to heck... My speed dropped 
> to 320kbps DOWN with a noise ration of 29db (out of 31, at worst), but 
> the up was fine at 800kbps. I wrote it off as the storm, but it also 
> seems that every time there is a storm, it goes to heck.
>
> What I am wondering is, given that the signal up is fine, if Bell 
> could be doing something to try and say "hey, see, you connection is 
> going to pot because of those dirty ptp'ers.". If that was so though, 
> the up would be equally messed up.
>
> Then again, never attribute to malice what can be attributed to 
> incompetence, or something like that.
>
> Madi

I'm finding that all my encrypted traffic is getting hit badly.  Mail 
and web are slower, but still usable.

V.
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