Re: [nznog] Connection reliability (was Re: Telstra's Outage)

On 21/12/2006, at 12:19 PM, Matthew Poole wrote:

And there's the rub. currently You have to go through Telecom if you're outside WLG/CHC and want a terrestrial connection to your home. They govern the bottom two layers of the connection absolutely, so even if an ISP wanted to offer a premium service with higher reliability they couldn't do it without laying their own network.

The real rub: if you (company, individual, community) want to have your own network, you've got to go out and build it. That is exactly what many of us here do. Enough said. Jonny.