Hi gaming pings between 5pm and 7pm ?

[Rik]

It just looked a little familiar.

[netn00b]

i dont even know who it is tbh.

just dial it and away it goes !

been using it this afternoon for work purposes and had not shut laptop down.

[Rik]

I can tell you now I can get to RIPE.

[cavillas]

Went off, came on, went off came on, all ok now.  Spoke to Simon and it seems things are back ok.  Roll on tomorrow morning.

[Rik]

Tomorrow's work was done during the outage, Alf.

[zappaDPJ]

I just had another small outage, anyone else?

[Rik]

Fine here.

[cavillas]

Little one here, tomorrow comes too soon.

[Kobe]

hey everyone

I'm not liking this thread, i've just migrated from BeThere so should be switched over in the next few days, as my main thing is Gaming higher latency in the network has raised my eyebrows a bit  i'm used to 22ms as avg (when be works that is) just hope i don't have problems 

[cavillas]

You should'nt have any problems, this was just a minor glitch sorted extremely quickly.

[Simon]

  Kobe.  Don't panic, and 

[vitriol]

What Simon said

[Rik]

Hi Kobe and welcome to the forum.

If it's of any reassurance, I average 23ms to the BBC with interleaving on.

[Niall]

What does seem to be happening is that BT are delaying upgrades to exchanges and 20CN backhaul as they put their money into 21CN/WBC. We are aware of a number of cases where BT have admitted exchange congestion but are not fixing it. Unfortunately, there's little IDNet can do in that situation, so a migration might be the best solution. For myself, my line has consistently performed at the fastest speed it can for two years now.

My line is a good one, so when there are problems I can generally see that it's due to service issues either at the exchange or with the problems IDnet are having. As I know it's BT taking the mick with them, I'm not worrying too much about it. I have to say though, when I've decided to play WoW it's starting to get a bit erratic due to high latency, but not all the time, just at random intervals. I also had issues last week where people couldn't hear me on ventrilo because I was lagging badly, which resulted in me having to shut off everything that used even the smallest amount of bandwidth in order to be heard properly. Now there have been at least 2 complete loss of service issues in this week alone.

I'm not going to scream and shout, then jump ship as I know that IDnet are doing what they can to improve service, so it's a bit harsh to blame them and move on at the first sign of trouble. BT did this with Nildram about 7 years ago too, so I've seen it before.

One thing I'm curious about though. Can IDnet sue BT over this as it will almost definitely be effecting their business service levels, and customer base? BT have actually given dates and from what I've read (may not actually be accurate, admittedly) they've delayed twice. In any other business I've worked in, if a company did this sort of thing they'd lose the contract (obviously different situation here, but still..)

[Rik]

I don't know about suing BT, Niall, but I agree that IDNet should be compensated for the delays, which are costing them customers, both existing and new. I suspect, however, that BT have got it all covered in the small print and, as you say, it's not as if IDNet can take their business elsewhere. The fact that BT are offering, but have yet to deliver, new centrals without the significant up front payment suggests that they feel they might otherwise face some claims, at least to me.

How's the guitar coming along?

[Niall]

Yeah, compensation is what I meant. I had a few beers last night and I think I left my higher brain functions in a can somewhere

The guitar is coming along slowly. I've been spending a lot of time in the gym, and more relaxing afterwards (can't move my hand properly after the gym for a few hours!) so I get about 2 days a week and only an hour at best then. I've actually booked 2 days off over the next two weeks, specifically to get some practice in

[Rik]

We're looking forward to the first concert.

[Niall]

I think I'd have to live about 5 lifetimes to be good enough to do a chorus for someone

Oh and on another subject, I've just got my grubby mitts on a Sony Ericsson 905C mobile phone. Talk about bells and whistles. It's going to take me ages to figure out all the functions. I've never been so impressed with a phone in my life, and the camera on it is VERY impressive considering it's a phone. 8.1mp (I know there's more to it than that) is a lot for a small camera. I've not seen small cameras with high mp having good quality, but this seems to have. Internet, email, msn messenger, camera, oh and it's got a phone too

[Rik]

I think Sony make very good mobile phones, except for the call quality, which I've always found inferior to Nokia. The cameras have always been excellent, though.

[Niall]

This one is really good. I think you're right about the call quality though, it does seem slightly less clear than my last two Nokia phones, but still more than good enough. Sony hardware is really good at the moment, as I've recently bought the Walkman mp3 player which is really good too. Not sure I'm willing to buy a PS3 though, although I do have a PSP

[Rik]

What's a PS3? 

[Niall]

Playstation 3. I think you've got one on the sly

[Rik]

Not me, Niall, the only game I've ever played was the one I wrote for Acorn in 1984.

[Niall]

I had an Acorn Electron. I loved that thing

[Rik]

I had a BBC B - great machine.