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

[Kris Davidson]

Yeah I was reading about bad performance all round. I did noticed a
marked improvement here when I did some blocking though.

I would of assumed some planning for this but perhaps that's asking
for too much.

On 24 June 2010 08:35, Sean McRobbie <lug at seany.us> wrote:
> 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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