[dundee] Striking workers will curb network upgrades, claims BT

[Sean McRobbie]

A lot of BT and BT Wholesale based connections were suffering quite badly. I saw 14kb/s at an office I manage (that was with nobody IN the office) and plenty of others saw similar all over the country.

Meanwhile others who have actually invested in some half-decent infrastructure were unaffected: BE/O2 coped well with no packetloss or slowdowns bar at one exchange. Virgin wholesale coped similarly: http://www.speedtest.net/result/856931074.png

Regards,
Sean McRobbie

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kris Davidson" <davidson.kris at gmail.com>
To: "Tayside Linux User Group" <dundee at lists.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Thursday, 24 June, 2010 7:47:38 AM
Subject: Re: [dundee] Striking workers will curb network upgrades, claims BT

I ended up blocking a lot of streaming stuff yesterday as the
connection was grinding to a halt. One idiot even tried to watch it
while connected to the VPN.

On 23 June 2010 21:32, Paul Lancaster <paul_lancaster at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Just out of interest for the sysadmin/business bods and the internet
>> addicts, what plans do you have in place to cover if your connection
>> goes down.
>>
> Sit back, turn the tele on and watch the world cup, and hope BT takes
> the phone lines down as well so I dont get disturbed by *****y users
>
> ;)
>
> Paul
>
>
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