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[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Marco van de Voort wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 09:23:30AM +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>>> Unless your internet goes down... like what happened to me on Thursday.
>>> And I live in a first world country (finally) - but not even such
>>> countries are immune to internet outages.
>> First world? I thought you were in England? **
> 
> Location has nothing to do with it. For work, I visit a lot of factories,
> and while some might have some wireless in office area, the workfloor has
> none.  And even if they have, if one only visits occasionally, getting
> credentials is usually too bureacratic.

Actually, location has a lot to do with it. The UK (Conservative) 
government made a political decision to force ISPs onto NGN (21CN), the 
UK (Labour) government manipulated things so that the business went to 
Cisco and Huawei rather than to Marconi who were supplying the existing 
telecoms infrastructure, and the UK government (Conservative) continues 
to turn a blind eye to the fact that the dominant network has no 
resilience since it was rolled out before any network management 
infrastructure was in place. Let's just say that we see a bit more 
detail on routing issues etc. than most users do...

So I sympathise with people who temporarily find themselves unable to 
use wireless etc. due to local management issues, but the "Internet 
going down", i.e. there being no connectivity to a site, is something 
different that, sadly, UK users have to live with. And that's why we pay 
for connections to three different networks.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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