There was a notice on EQVault from Smedley saying the recent PL was a
problem with Cerfnet routers again. I know a little about networking but
not enough to know why all the router problems seem to occur with Cerfnet
while UUNet always seems to work fine. I assume that these are two
companies that work similar to ISPs and that Verant has a support contract
with them. What I'm wondering is if the problems are based on the type of
router the company is using (i.e. Cisco vs some other company) or is it a
internal operational problem (i.e. the UUNet people know how to do their
jobs better than the Cerfnet people)?

Galtin of E'ci

>
> > >That's possible. I didn't check the lag meter, but I've been
> > >coping with 10%-30% PL most of the time for the last three
> > >weeks.
> >
> > It's been BAD! Wave after wave of linkdeads, and it is happening to
> friends
> > with cable modems as well as with my dial up connection. I have been
> > wondering if it was regional (Austin) or further upstream. Sounds like
> trhe
> > latter
>
> That 10%-30% is with a cable modem.
>
> Early yesterday afternoon after slogging through more of the
> same PL for an hour, something hiccupped dumping about a third
> of the players off the servers. When I got back on there was
> a message saying they were looking into the PL problem. For
> the next half hour, I had 0%-3% PL. Then they took the
> servers down (presumably to fix the PL), and when I got back
> on it was at 10%-30% again. I fired off a feedback
> complaining about it. My friends in Toronto, Minnesota, and
> California are reporting the same thing so I think the problem
> is at or near Verant.
>
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