Beginning 1 June 2005, Jamaica has begun assessing a tax (er, they call it a levy) on incoming minutes from overseas. To enforce the levy, Jamaica’s Ministry of Commerce, Science and Technology has blocked incoming calls being carried by AT&T, MCI, Sprint, and British Telecom. The levy is US$0.03 per minute on calls terminating to [...]
Last night I came home to a DSL connection which kept dropping out and retraining, and running very slowly when it would stay connected more than a few seconds, and a phone line full of static. Since it rained last night, I figured this probably had something to do with it. So I call up Qwest, and they tell me they'll send someone out today.
My hot new DSL connection from Qwest.net has now officially exceeded my expectations. I consistently get the full available bandwidth both ways at any time of day or night, and I can run gnutella again without taking a performance hit on other connections -- gnutella even runs more smoothly and can handle more open connections! So does BitTorrent. And so does this Web server. Overall you can rate me quite impressed.
And now it's time to tell you a story of an ISP gone terribly wrong. I signed up for DSL through a local company, Iowa Network Services, about seven months ago. Out of the ISPs available, this appeared to be the least expensive one which would provide me with static IP addresses and not mind too much if I hosted my own services. The circuit, of course, was provided by Qwest, the local telephone company.
As you've probably noticed, we have been down for just about a week. I decided, because of problems with my previous ISP which they were unable or unwilling to resolve, to change Internet services. Well, at the time I did this last Tuesday, the previous ISP decided to have a nice big network outage. And then, when they got their network back up and running, failed to get me back up and running. And their tech support was utterly useless... I'll say more on them later.
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