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"Charly Jones" <charly301@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Could you clarify for me what those numbers might mean?  I can't imagine
> that 36 days out of 365 you get nothing at all from your 90%
> reliable cable modem.  Or 3 days out of the year the 99.9% reliable DSL
> doesn't work at all.

The 99.9% reliability figure for my QWEST DSL service is pretty on the mark
... a shade low.  Since I've been on the service (midrange.com) ... about 11
months now, I've had about 1.5 days of total downtime.  Compared to friends
who are on Ameritech DSL service, this is tremendous ... they have
significantly poorer reliability figures.

The cable internet (AT&T) is a bit of an exageration ... it's probably more
like 95% reliability.  I've been out 10-15 days in the past year, all
totaled.  This includes spot outtages (less than 3 hours).

> On the other hand, I am not sure that I would be very effective working on
a
> system that scrambled 10% of every screen.  Is it always the same 10% or
> does it move around a bit?

Well, you don't get a scrambled screen ... you just drop the connection.  It
either works or it doesn't.

Another thing to keep in mind, I'm not using a lot of the services that my
providers offer ... no email, no personal home page, no dns, etc.  Most of
that I provide myself.  If we included those services, then the reliability
figures would drop markedly.

david






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