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



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