Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 17:15:39 -0500
From: OMNIport Technical Support 
Reply-To: OMNIport Technical Support 
Organization: OMNIport NETwork Services, Subsidiary of Caribe Enterprises, Inc.
X-URL: http://www.OMNIport.net/
To: OMNIport Customer 
Subject: Regional Provider's Routing Problem

Hello,

A few minutes ago we received the following message from our
regional provider:

|From: Network Operations
|Subject: Issues and Downtime
|
|The intermittent network outages plaguing our system today will
|continue until tomorrow morning, when we anticipate a short 15
|minute maintenance window during which the issue should be
|completely repaired.
|
|We apologize for the short notice of this announcement and the
|time of day it will occur, however the maintenance window is
|extremely urgent to repair problems with mission critical components.
|
|The scheduled time for the maintenance windows is 12:00 P.M. (Noon).
|
|Sincerely,
|Network Operations

Currently we are experiencing a rather cyclical pattern of ups and
downs.  At present, the connection is up for 8 or 16 minutes, then
it drops out for one minute.  Even though this is not optimal, it
does allow for most services to be transfered over the conenction.
Due to the robust design of the internet protocol, these sorts of
interuptions have the effect of virtually removing the outtages,
producing an overall slowness instead.

As you can see from the message we received, internet connectivity
at large will be sluggish until a little past noon.

Thank you for your patience.

Stay tuned:  http://www.OMNIport.net/news/


Regards,
OMNIport Technical Support