Frustration last night, as I kept getting busy signals from ISP Inch. Then I caught the TV news saying that Bell Atlantic had outages from Maine to Virginia. A cut cable. Couldn't post till this morning. Felt justified in fudging the date. The more we depend on this technology, the more reliability becomes an issue. I suspect we don't really have the fall-back positions we need. Where'd I stash that Y2K manual?
Agreed. The supposedly de-centralized internet is not really very decentralized. There are a few strategic points that can't really be routed around (in the short term) should they suddenly fail (especially MAE-east in Virginia and MAE-west in California.) On the local side of things (like an ISP going down) it seems like the 3l33t these days have always-on connections (dsl or cable) as primary access, and then one of the "free" advertisement ridden ISP's as a 56K back up should the first line go down. Probably a good plan.
Here's a possibly useful page from andover.net for judging the health of the net, in various geographic regions, at any point in time. (Not much good if you can't even get on the net though.)
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- alex 6-29-2000 4:24 pm
Agreed. The supposedly de-centralized internet is not really very decentralized. There are a few strategic points that can't really be routed around (in the short term) should they suddenly fail (especially MAE-east in Virginia and MAE-west in California.) On the local side of things (like an ISP going down) it seems like the 3l33t these days have always-on connections (dsl or cable) as primary access, and then one of the "free" advertisement ridden ISP's as a 56K back up should the first line go down. Probably a good plan.
- jim 6-29-2000 6:56 pm [add a comment]
Here's a possibly useful page from andover.net for judging the health of the net, in various geographic regions, at any point in time. (Not much good if you can't even get on the net though.)
- jim 6-30-2000 2:36 pm [add a comment]
What is the status of satelite internet connections ?
- bill 7-07-2000 8:19 pm [add a comment]
Definitely happening. Still rather expensive for non profit making activities.
- jim 7-07-2000 8:34 pm [add a comment]