[GNUz] Fwd: TelCo & ISP performance

[John Carter]

I tried phoning my wife from a corded landline directly after the quake.

Phone was stone dead.

I accidentally noticed within an hour or so of the Quake when the radio was
begging people to only use the telephone for emergency calls because the
telephone system
was saturated....

...that videos were playing from youtube at full speed.

ie. If the telephone system was saturating it is because it is stuck in an
outdated technology
and should be given the boot.

The Radio was also begging people to use txt's instead of calling..... but I
found txt's,
although thousands of times lighter weight than calls, were getting queued
by the system
and coming out sometimes hours later (way way too late).

ie. I soon decided if I wanted to know where my family was, mobile phone
calling calling was the only way. txt's were hopeless!

Maybe in such peak times the service providers should _encourage_ texting by
such things as
prioritizing txts and making them free!

Ultimately I contributed to the road clogging by driving to my wifes place
of work to find out if she was OK.

(She was, but had taken a lift with someone)

She only found out two hours later we were ok when I gave up on txts and
called her mobile. (I didn't have a mobile on me, I used my daughters).


On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Adam <ahcnz at ihug.co.nz> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
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