Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1999 06:14:44 -0600
From: OMNIport Technical Support 
Reply-To: OMNIport Technical Support 
Organization: OMNIport NETwork Services, Subsidiary of Caribe Enterprises, Inc.
X-URL: http://www.OMNIport.net/
Subject: Equipment replaced, outtage cured!

Hello,

Whew!  After a grueling night of debugging routers, TSU's, Frame-relay
circuits, etc. ... the connection is back up .... and is even BETTER!

OMNIport Technical Support replaced some network routing equipment as did
the regional provider.  OMNIport now has an even faster connection as a
result.  Preliminary observation of the connection shows a noticeable
improvement in throughput speed and consistancy with the new equipment.

Even though it is too early to tell for sure, it appears that the woes
we have experienced since the regional provider facility migration are
finally over ... yes!

In the process, name services have been adjusted.  PLEASE make sure that
your outgoing e-mail server (SMTP server) is smtp.omniport.net  ...  for
it will vastly improve your ability to send e-mail.  In the next few days,
the e-mail servers are scheduled to be replaced (upgraded) and by making
sure your mail manager points to smtp.omniport.net for the outgoing mail
server you will be able to take advantage of the new servers.

[Note: Customers with their own domain names with e-mail hosted by
 OMNIport will NOT have to make any adjustments to their settings if
 they are NOT using OMNIport servers to send e-mail.... i.e. the mail
 servers set up in the mail manager settings is NOT an OMNIport server.]

In the last message, we mentioned that "OMNIport website access" is not
effected by the recent connection break ... this is a clarification.  We
meant to indicate that you can get to OMNIport pages ... and all those
sites hosted by OMNIport ... but any other sites were not reachable.

Look in the news page at http://www.OMNIport.net/news/ for late breaking
news and information important to OMNIport customers such as yourself.
We are planning to upgrade out dial-up service in the near future and we
will be posting information on the news pages.


Regards,
OMNIport Technical Support