[GNUz] TelCo & ISP performance

[Adam]

Has the 'quake highlighted the performance of Telephone 
companies and ISPs ? 

Any feedback on Telcos and ISPs may be interesting.  
Does anyone have any comments, good or bad, as a result 
of their experience at or after the terrible Christchurch 'quake ? 

Here are mine FYI, they are from the South Island although 
out of Christchurch.  

* the Internet as such, seems to have been resilient and 
performed well. 

* Early failures by Vodaphone, first as a result of TXT message 
overloading, then perhaps as a result of repeater station power loss. 

* Failure of 2Degrees to carry TXT messages to Vodaphone, (or 
failure by Vodaphone to receive those TXTs).  

* Failure of Telecom landlines in Christchurch to contact one another.
(This is interesting, as copper landlines and autonomous telephone 
exchange power supplies should be most resilient and reliable !). 

* Success in 2Degrees contacting those same Telecom landlines.

* Failure of 2Degrees TXTing, where repeats of the TXT message 
occurred sometimes 4 or 5 times.