Road Runner down again
R124c4u2
down again, the second time in just a few weeks.
There is nothing on some active groups since the early morning hours of Nov 27.
AOL shows all kinds of activity since then.
The last time this happened I called them. Went through three levels of
increasing guruishness. Spent about two hours with these people and in the
process of slavishly following their instructions lost all my newsgroup
subscriptions. They didn't tell me about side effects! So this time I will
let them stew in their own juice and see if they are back on the air in a week
or so. The last outage was about three days. I am posting this via AOL since I
don't know if outgoing stuff on Media One is being handled properly.
All of these gurus said they had no way to see if the newsgroups were indeed
working, they had some kind of specialized work station. The last, super high
level guru, didn't even know what newsgroups were! He went to his supervisor
and the supervisor found out they weren't working and apparently I was the
first one to report it. I do not care for the role of a canary in a coal mine.
Nathan D. Olmscheid
R124c4u2
Your message is time stamped 10:23 PST, it is now 12:10 PST and your message
has not showed up on my Media One newsfeed. I saw it over an hour ago on AOL.
This is in the northern subrurbs of St. Paul.
My intent in posting was to alert Media One customers but of course the ones
with a bad newsfeed probably can't see it! We need a Media One support group
somehow, independant of Usenet. I suspect that Deja is often too slow to be of
much help. There are some quasi-newsgroup thingies I have seen but I know
virtually nothing of them and how they work. I have never tried to post to one
of them; I don't even know what their proper name is.
d...@who.org
>All of these gurus said they had no way to see if the newsgroups were indeed
>working, they had some kind of specialized work station. The last, super high
>level guru, didn't even know what newsgroups were! He went to his supervisor
>and the supervisor found out they weren't working and apparently I was the
>first one to report it. I do not care for the role of a canary in a coal mine.
They'll almost ALWAYS claim that you're the "first person" to report a
problem... and that's only if you can actually convince them that the
problem exists.
Scott
Nathan D. Olmscheid
had problems with RoadRunner, but since I have been with them, I have not had an
outage, and I have never had any problems with them at all. I am actually very
impressed with the speed I am in. Maybe I am the only one using it in Shakopee??
Who knows!!! I know that its great and you no other service out there for the same
price can come close!
What area are you guys in who are experiencing problems?
Nathan
John Galt
news:3A23E7E4...@update-media.com...
> I just wanted to make an update and a statement. I really feel bad for you
that have
> had problems with RoadRunner, but since I have been with them, I have not
had an
> outage, and I have never had any problems with them at all. I am actually
very
> impressed with the speed I am in. Maybe I am the only one using it in
Shakopee??
> Who knows!!! I know that its great and you no other service out there for
the same
> price can come close!
The newsgroup problem seems to have been fixed sometime after 08:00 CST on
11-29. At 08:00 there was not a single post dated 11-29 on several NGs I
watch. The outage started in the early morning hours of 11- 27 so they
were down for something in excess of 55 hours. They weren't actually
*down*, but the posts were so delayed that they were virtually worthless to
me.
I can't conjecture why different areas would have different results with
respect to this problem. It seems to me they would have one newsgroup
harvesting service and use it across the board.
You know you're in trouble as an ISP when an AOL backup is better than the
service you provide!
Nathan D. Olmscheid
Ken Frank
> The newsgroup problem seems to have been fixed sometime after 08:00 CST on
> 11-29. At 08:00 there was not a single post dated 11-29 on several NGs I
> watch. The outage started in the early morning hours of 11- 27 so they
> were down for something in excess of 55 hours. They weren't actually
> *down*, but the posts were so delayed that they were virtually worthless to
> me.
What groups? I certainly didn't notice any missing articles on
news.mn.mediaone.net during that period -- in fact, I'd have to
say their news server kicks ass every bit as much as visi.com's,
at least for the groups I like to read.
> I can't conjecture why different areas would have different results with
> respect to this problem. It seems to me they would have one newsgroup
> harvesting service and use it across the board.
>
> You know you're in trouble as an ISP when an AOL backup is better than the
> service you provide!
Hehe ;-)
John Galt
> What groups? I certainly didn't notice any missing articles on
> news.mn.mediaone.net during that period -- in fact, I'd have to
> say their news server kicks ass every bit as much as visi.com's,
> at least for the groups I like to read.
mn.politics for one. There was at least a 12 hour delay more than from AOL.
That is normally a pretty quiet froup but it has been quite active the last
week or so. I didn't say the articles were missing; they were just so
delayed as to be unusable.