[ale] Bellsouth DSL "maintenence"

[nick travis]

I didn't have the problem last night, several of my friends in the area
did too, even if it is maintenance, 10:00 seems a little early to start.

Nick

On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 09:48, Nathan J. Underwood wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, are you posting this because your BellSouth DSL went down
> last night?  If so, yeah, I'm seein' the same thing.  I've called their tech
> support WAY too many times in the last month.  At first, I was having trouble
> downloading ISO's.  It would just stop downloading at 25MB, sharp.  After going
> through the troubleshooting tips (tried it from 6 machines, and 3 operating
> systems, HTTP, FTP [gftp, wsftp, cuteftp, pretty much anything I could find]),
> verifying the cable, etc., they assured me that it must be a problem on my end.
>  The next day, it seemed to just start working (guess I was doing some
> sleepwalking and fixed my equip that night ;).  Next, an electrical storm took
> out my surge protector(s), xDSL modem, switch, etc., so I was on the phone with
> tech support getting a replacement modem.  It's been working since Monday, and
> then last night, no dice, "Could not connect to PPPoE Server".  I didn't even
> bother calling.</rant>
> 
> Quoting Nick Travis <linuxnews at wormfishin.com>:
> 
> > About once a month at 10:00 sharp my Bellsouth DSL connection goes down, When
> > I call thier tech support I always get the same answer, "We're doing some
> > maintenence work, you should be able to connect but it may be down for a few
> > minutes as certain things are done to the line"  and it's always the same for
> > me, I can't get a connection until the next morning, has anyone else
> > experienced this?
> > 
> > Nick
> 

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