Fair call from people suggesting that if the internet is critical to the running of a business then a backup connection should be a no-brainer. Just like those people who lose 'thousands of dollars of business when my x-ISP webmail goes down' should spend some real money on a business-quality mail product. At one point in time I was running wireless (ldms, not wlan) and had dsl as backup. Because the wireless was susceptible to sudden, unavoidable, interruptions (e.g. hailstorms a newly erected crane swinging in and out of the LOS) the DSL backup was necessary. Coincidentally the DSL connection actually ran with around five 9's uptime during that 2 year period) I have been using vector fibre to carry phone and internet services from my ISP for a few years now and only really have one complaint: It would seem that a power failure in the neighbourhood, however short, instantly *kills* the all services that are provisioned over the connection. Surely the building switch(s) (vector/isp?) and the rest of the network equipment (vector?) should be protected by UPS so as to avoid failure during short power outages? -- Regan ##################################################################################### This e-mail message has been scanned for Viruses and Content and cleared by MailMarshal #####################################################################################