Joseph Gibbs wrote:
What sort of outages? How long do they seem to last, and how often do they happen?
(Having said the following, the last two weeks have been pretty good) My usage patterns are generally only during working hours (the opposite of Kyle), and as such experience different outages. Most weeks there's an outage at least two days, which can last from anywhere from 30 minutes to upto 4 hours at one stage. When ringing and complaining they're mostly attributed to hardware failure or unexplained something'o'rathers. From what I've been told WC have no backup system in Hamilton, so when it dies you have to wait for them to fix it. We also used to get a large number of micro-outages that'd last 10-30 seconds, but still long enough to interrupt your SSH session or get in the way of your web surfing. Not to mention the rebooting of the CPE when (new firmware upgrade?) it locks up. Recently I've also had problems with high packetloss over the WC network, but has since subsided to a reasonable level. (See Daniel's post about Ihug/WC) I wouldn't recommend this service. Cheers Phil