[Wolves] plusnet adsl connection problem?

Stuart Langridge stuart.langridge at gmail.com
Fri Jul 22 11:53:05 BST 2005


> >> This is a typical experience for me & must be the third big outage
> >> this year - kind of makes a nonesense of the claimed over 99% uptime!
> >
> > Don't believe statistics :) What they probably mean is that 99% of
> > users  have less than 4 hours downtime during XYZ hours in a year.
> 
> I'm sure you're right.

Remember that "99% uptime" means 1% downtime, and 1% of a year is 3
whole days -- 87.6 hours, to be precise -- that it can be down while
still maintaining a 99% uptime record.

Aq.



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