I just had the following emailed to me from Global Gateway (it may help). Upstream Provider Initial Outage Notification Australia Global-Gateway Internet is currently experiencing service disruption which began on 8th July 1400hrs You are likely to experience intermittent packet loss on your Australian service until this problem is resolved. The problem will be resolved by Australian provider early tomorrow morning. GGIS apologises for any inconvenience to you or your customers. Logged by Maurice Wilkinson on Thu Jul 8 17:34:13 2004 Drew Collins Group Communications Manager Group IT Services NZ APN Holdings NZ Ltd My DDI: +64 9 373 9573 My Mobile +64 21 823268 My Fax: +64 9 373 6411 Ph: +64 9 379 5050 My eMail: drew_collins(a)apn.co.nz Website: www.apn.co.nz *************************************************************************** This eMail may contain privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, any use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this message is prohibited. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of APN News & Media NZ Ltd. For more information on APN News & Media NZ Ltd please visit our web site at http://www.apn.co.nz ***************************************************************************