🚀 go-pugleaf

I had actually reached the point of bragging on these clowns that the
service had "stabilized" after FOUR MONTHS of pure AT&T hell.  I
actually experienced SEVEN DAYS without a major problem.  I guess I
have lowered my expectations of what a company with $10 billion from
an IPO should be capable of delivering -- reliable service.

Tonight is a REPETITION of the SAME problem that had the service shut
down for almost a day just two weeks ago.  

Apparently either AT&T doesn't know how to configure their DNS name
authentication servers or they are buying war surplus equipment from
Albania.  TWO of the name authentication servers have been out for
most of today -- which has meant NO INTERNET SERVICE

When is AT&T going to buy equipment from reputable third parties
instead of trying to put a Rube Goldberg patchwork system together in
their garage?  And when are they going to read up on SYSTEM REDUNDANCY
and how to implement it?

Unfortunately, the only thing redundant about AT&T is the continual
plague of service problems .....

And forget about "Phone, Fax and Surf at the same time."  They still
have not fixed the service so that 95% of the fax machines in the
world can send or receive with it.  You will still have to have an
analog line to be able to send or receive faxes reliably.

So if you are in one of the four cities AT&T plans to use as their
next experimental laboratory with paying customers as lab rats on this
beta service, don't say you haven't been warned.  Check first with
those of us on the "bleeding edge" of the service here in DFW.  You'll
be glad you did!

BTW, I am not posting this message with my nonexistent AT&T service.
Instead I am using a SBC analog line and a reliable 56k modem ....