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In article <B5B065729668158A4@192.168.1.3>,
ghb@clarity.co.uk (Hugh Browton) wrote:

>Is is just me, or is Demon having one of it's bad fridays? Often Demon
>service is poor (meaning slow connection and repeated DNS failures) on a
>friday afternoon, but today the malaise seems to be a feature this morning
>too.

I think it may be you.

First, via both Red and Purple, I don't experience the bad Fridays you
complain of. Every now and again (maybe twice a week) I get a bad modem
connection, at 33600, but DNS failures none at all. Maybe I'm just lucky,
but I call in on average five times a day, mornings and evenings. Sometimes
(but rarely) it takes maybe 20 secs to get connected to News, although Post
seems to be up sooner than that; receiving mail by SMTP, 90% of the time
mail flow starts 10 seconds after connection, 20 secs at the absolute
latest. Browsing seems to be very reliable.

Connection speeds are okay; I normally get 52k via Red and Purple. This
using a Mac, with OT/FreePPP, Courier V Everything from 020 8255 xxxx
(Telewest).

Today (Friday) using an iBook and the internal modem, which is not as good
as the Courier, I connected twice from Switzerland via the 0121 number,
once at about 0600 BST and again at about 1530. Both connects were at 42k
(not too bad on what's a fairly old line at this end, out in the country,
although I sometimes see 45k). I got news and mail fine, both times. In the
morning I noticed one roughly 5 second pause in the news flow, but that was
all.

Which number are you calling? You did see in demon.announce that there are
heavy changes taking place on the Red ROMP (0845 0798666) and they were
predicting problems connecting on that number till 0600? These jobs often
take longer than expected. You could always try an alternative access
number, such as Purple or Green.

-- 
Peter