[sklyarov-chicago] Re: [UFO Chicago] Downtime for Tastytronic Industries

[Vitaly McLain]

Hi,

> In future news, the status of Tastytronic Industries' network
> connection is somewhat up in the air. Our current "last mile
> provider," rhythms, is bankrupt and will cease operations some time
> between the 5th and 10th of September. Our ISP is going to switch us
> over to Ameritech (joy), but there may be a lapse of service while
> this is being taken care of. If this lapse appers to be significant
> (more than a day or two), I will move flynn to a new connection. This
> would, however, necessitate much configuration and I would personally
> rather suffer a few days downtime.

Note that Ameritech's upload speed leaves much to be desired. Will it be
enough to run your server?
As for the downtime, the last time I spoke to a DirecTelocity rep, they said
that Rhythms is shutting down
their network piece-by-piece. My place of summer-work (which had
DirecTelocity) started having connectivity
problems and the tech support guy indiciated that it will "get worse before
it gets better."

> Peace,
>
> Pedro

Vitaly McLain <vitalym@ix.netcom.com>
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