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| Thread ID: 79518 | 2007-05-22 12:37:00 | my phone line died; anyone else? | motorbyclist (188) | PC World Chat |
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| 552068 | 2007-05-22 12:37:00 | earlier tonight my (ihug) broadband died, looked at router's intranet page/utility and found it simply had no connection. tried rebooting it to no luck. after a bit more puzzling i picked up the phone to give ihug a call. no dial tone. i checked that everything had been hung up correctly etc but i had lost my landline.... it obviously has returned to normal (normal internet speed too) i was wondering if this was just my place, a local thing (ie car hitting power pole) or nationwide? happened to anyone else before? |
motorbyclist (188) | ||
| 552069 | 2007-05-22 12:51:00 | Yes. Just like power cuts, its affected by accidents and equipment failure, plus by some uncommon maintenence activities. Its close to 100% but "not quite". It usually regional or local in origin. In rural areas it can be a few days at a time... |
godfather (25) | ||
| 552070 | 2007-05-22 12:59:00 | Yes. Just like power cuts, its affected by accidents and equipment failure, plus by some uncommon maintenence activities. Its close to 100% but "not quite". It usually regional or local in origin. In rural areas it can be a few days at a time... i thought as much. i'll have a chat with the neighbours and see if they got cut too. |
motorbyclist (188) | ||
| 552071 | 2007-05-22 13:00:00 | Everything has been fine here in south/east Auckland. | stu161204 (123) | ||
| 552072 | 2007-05-22 14:00:00 | oh, west auckland here | motorbyclist (188) | ||
| 552073 | 2007-05-23 01:49:00 | Had very intermittent adsl service here in Pakuranga last night. Xtra. All is good now. | Greg (193) | ||
| 552074 | 2007-05-23 04:57:00 | In the US, the Bell telephone system (while it was a gross, greedy monopoly before it was forced to split up into a group of smaller regional companies to compete with other gross, greedy companies in the "market") had a service standard. I think the NZ P&T, then Post Office, tried to maintain the same standard. It was the "4 nines" standard: that meant you could rely on service for ".9999 of the time". I think that allowed for a down time of 2 hours. In 40 years. :thumbs: In the new competitive market, it's not quite as good. :( I can remember a time when Telecom upgraded the software in some of the exchanges in the North Island. The system went down. The "backups" were unusable. Didn't it take a couple of weeks to get back a working system? Progress is wonderful. |
Graham L (2) | ||
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