On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 02:22:42PM -0500, Austad, Jay wrote:
> I was told by a certain high up ATT person that all the people who work for
> their cable modem division currently don't really give a shit about anything
> over there. Apparently there is some merger thing happening or something,
> and they are all just waiting to be laid off. Many people have already
> left, and the remaining ones are just doing a half-assed job. He said that
> getting them to do anything that requires any amount of effort is nearly
> impossible.
And this is different how? I've always had mildly crappy service.
> Comforting thought, since I have an ATT cable modem, which has
> been working terrible lately (periods of very slow connectivity and high
> latency).
Let me guess, about 5pm until midnight, ~300-500ms latency, kind of like
this:
Packets Pings
Hostname %Loss Rcv Snt Last Best Avg Worst
2. c-24-118-252-1.mn.client2.attbi.com 0% 57 57 12 11 16 61
3. bar01-f5-1-0.invehe1.mn.attbb.net 0% 57 57 12 11 16 39
4. bar01-p0-0.newphe1.mn.attbb.net 0% 57 57 13 11 15 26
5. bar01-p4-1-0.aftohe1.mn.attbb.net 0% 57 57 12 12 17 51
6. 24.31.1.193 0% 56 57 207 182 226 266
7. 24.31.2.105 0% 56 57 206 180 227 285
8. 24.31.2.81 0% 56 57 207 178 227 302
9. 12.126.248.117 0% 56 56 211 176 227 280
seems to ramp up as the night progresses until about midnight when it
starts to die off.
I talked to a local NOC guy, he didn't seem to care 'All we're selling is
connectivity, not good service' seems to be AT&T's motto.
> Jay
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