On Wed 21 May 2008 10:14:45p, isw told us...

> In article >,
> "Nancy Young" > wrote:
>
>> "Gregory Morrow" > wrote
>>
>> >Nancy Young wrote:
>>
>> >> Can you imagine me? New pc and all, trying to figure out WHY can't
>> >> I get to newsgroups??? What did I screw up? It was working fine
>> >> yesterday!!
>> >
>> >> Talk about bad timing.
>>
>>
>> >Well, I was *this* close to getting Comcast broadband so this thread
>> >is *very* relevant, lol...
>>
>> Actually, I don't have any complaints. I understand that occasionally,
>> something's going to go wrong.
>
> The telcos are pretty much obligated by law to have less than five
> minutes *per year* of unavailability to customers. The cable providers
> wheedled ($$$) the government into exempting them from that requirement
> -- or any reliability requirement at all, for that matter.
>
> And users lose because the government caved in yet again to "business
> interests".
>
> Isaac
>

That sure as hell was true with Qwest's phone line DSL service. When it
was my only choice, I would sometimes be out of service for hours at a
time, multiple times per year. So much for obligation.

Since I've had Cox cable, I have only experienced one outage and it was a
"planned outage" for upgrading to optical cable. Total time was about 2
hours.

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