[ale] Screwed by PPP0E

[Christopher Fowler]

On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 09:30, James Sumners wrote:
> It sounded to me like you were saying because of PPPoE you would
> experience downtime in the future. I agree that a switch in the middle
> of the night on a holiday weekend without notice is really crappy.
> Someone made a bad decision there.
> 

That is correct.  At home I converted to the new PPPOE and fast speed. 
I've went from 0 downtime to one or two reboots a month on the GDuo.  
The only reason why I did not want to switch at this remote was because
I wanted 0 downtime.  I did not even want the hour required the set it
up.  Otherwise I would have converted a year ago to get faster speed.

> On 31 May 2005 09:24:56 -0400, Christopher Fowler
> <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 09:19, James Sumners wrote:
> > > Other than reconfiguring your Speedfactory router, what down time? The
> > > only downtime I have with Speedfactory is when Bellsouth screws
> > > something up that affect's Speedfactory's ability to provide me, and
> > > everyone else, service. I have been using their 3Mb service for almost
> > > a year and haven't had any problems because of PPPoE. Once you
> > > authenticate your session is good until Bellsouth screws up the
> > > network.
> > 
> > Remote site.  It goes down at midnight I fix at 9am.  I have a GDuo.  I
> > had to setup PPPOE on my RH7.3 box.  I took an hour to get back up.
> > This is partially my fault because we are running servers on a
> > residential account.  In reality they can take down the network anytime
> > they want.
> > 
> > >
> > > I will say this, however. Speedfactory is getting a bit large.
> > >
> > > On 31 May 2005 08:47:05 -0400, Christopher Fowler
> > > <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> > > > I came into my remote office today to discover that Speedfactory had
> > > > switched me over to PPPOE.  Apparently they sent one of my partners an
> > > > email and I've not received it.  This causes pain because the only
> > > > reason why I've not switched to PPPOE and their faster speed before was
> > > > because I could not afford the downtime.
> > > >
> > > > They told me that everyone was forced to go to PPPOE.  Is this true?
> > > > What about Speakeasy.
> > > >
> > > > I will add this. <flamebait>The only reason I've not switched to
> > > > BS</flamebait> is because of the level of support I get from these
> > > > guys.  They helped me setup PPPOE on Linux twice.  BS would say "Linux
> > > > is not supported".  They've returned my calls and have called me back
> > > > when things began working again.  Now since I'm forced to go  PPPOE my
> > > > only thing keeping me with SF is the support.  Does SE force PPPOE?
> > > >
> > > > Chris
> > 
> > 
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