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Colin Panisset (cmp@opennet.net.au) typed:

: Although silence seems to be the order of the day as far as traffic
: across the "upgraded" network is concerned. Isn't it a little ridiculous
: that I can't download a 136K file from a US ftp site the connection times
: out before it's made? Or that it takes more than ten minutes to get 3K of
: it when you finally *do* get a connection?

I was happily FTP'ing away tonight when *bang*
"Server has stopped responding [blah blah blah] hanging up"
Anyway, I traceroute the site (it was overseas) and surprise surprise it
wasn't the infamous MCI lag..er, gateways this time, but our own Telstra.
Later (like about 10 mins ago) I started (actually I should say "attempted")
an
FTP session to a server in Australia.  It died in the arse right away.
Traceroute happily informed me that while I got 4ms times to our cisco 
router, the very next machine along the way (act.gw.au) had a whopping 2300+
time on it!  Then the next two - something-technical.core1.Canberra.telstra.net
was above 2000 and the next one somethingelse-technical.core1.Melbourne.-
telstra.net
was almost 2000!  That's the kind of response I'd expect from Finland, not a
local gateway!

: Yes, some sort of even semi-official announcement would have been nice.
: Perhaps Telstra Internet has decided to take the attitude that it's a
: technical problem and we don't really need to know the details...

Hey, maybe they're too busy fixing things to take 5 mins to fire up tin or trn
and say "hey guys, the net is down coz...."
*sarcasm mode off*

BTW: I used to have a great line to home.  Then a telstra technician came to
replace a dud handset and discovered my modem (no probs, it has an austel permit)
Ever since then it seems the error correction light has been flashing more
than the send/recieve lights...believe it, or not.... 

Anyway....
Needless to say, I'd appreciate a response as to why the local network is up
the creek.  And maybe an explanation as why an FTP session to Queensland from
Canberra goes through Melbourne (and not the new Sydney gateway they've put
in) would ease my mind (at least for the next couple of days ;)

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: Colin Panisset              | (opinions(here) == (opinions(mine) &&
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Matthew Hawkins              | "Fish heads, fish heads, roly-poly fish heads,
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