Text 5938, 43 rader
Skriven 2013-01-23 12:02:33 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.42)
   Kommentar till text 5912 av Nicholas Boel (17112.fidonews)
Ärende: Z4
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 NB>> I think they say anything more than 10 minutes at a crack, 
 NB>> they'll do something about it.

 ML> they who? the no-ip folks?

 NB> Yeah. When updating via a free DNS service, they obviously don't
 NB> want you pounding their servers.

sounds like they don't have enough resources for the traffic, then ;) way too
many places oversell their resources and then use the congestion to try to
bring in more $$$ to add more resources which they continue to oversell and in
many cases, sell at too high a price because folks are too ignorant to know
better :/

 ML> when my lines had water problems in them, my connection was up and 
 ML> down all the time... my software was going crazy trying to keep up 
 ML> with all the resets... the telco finally got their act together 
 ML> and fixed that particular problem (pedestal in flooded area) and 
 ML> my lines settled back down... when i say resets, i mean up to one 
 ML> a minutes for some spells of time... it would be ok for a bit and 
 ML> then go all shitty again... this went on for months before i 
 ML> finally raised enough hell to get it fixed... i can easily see 
 ML> where he may be in a similar situation...

 NB> I doubt that's the case here.

dude, have you seen the lines down there? i'm surprised that things work as
well as they do, really...

 NB> It actually seems like someone brought something up, and all of a 
 NB> sudden....... Maybe it took just that. And really, that's all that 
 NB> was asked from the get-go. Yet the person/people that had the 
 NB> chance to do it, didn't.

i think i know what you are saying and i believe i can agree with it... if i'm
reading between your lines corrctly, all i can say is that (some of??) those
people have an agenda and doing the right thing, no matter how it appears,
wasn't on it... witness those weilding occum's razor all the time...

)\/(ark

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