Internet into your School......

[dirtydog]

Demon 10MB leased line here plus a Be* line for other stuff.

[tom_newton]

Those of you who have... parted ways.. with your Local GFL... why? What services might tempt you back? Just interested

[User3204]

Those of you who have... parted ways.. with your Local GFL... why? What services might tempt you back? Just interested

 

uptime... reliability

 

We had the Filtering Server UPS replacement scheduled for 10am on a Friday. So the internet was off that morning, and was quirky for the rest of the day.. and the following week.

 

I don't know about others, but I find our "IT Services" just aren't very professionally minded.

 

 

We have a 2ary Redstone broadband link, which is reliable, prior to this we had a BT connection that never went down. The Redstone / BT links have never "gone down" in the 9 years we've had them, whereas the LA one...

[srochford]

Mmmmmmmmmmm SuperJanet we mere mortals can only dream of such service!!

 

The funniest thing is that the internal network starts to be a limit when you are connected to Janet.

 

The building I work in is still served with 100Mbit switches so although Imperial is a key point on SJ5 with multi-gigabit links to the rest of the internet, the fastest I can get stuff is about 10 Megabytes per second :-(