Month: April 2001

Mon Apr 9 19:52:54 PDT 2001 — Cable and Wireless isolated the trouble to a bad VIP card in the Cisco Router on the far side, and their NOC staff has replaced the card. The circuit has been up and stable for over 15 minutes now, and both Sonic.net and C&W staff will continue to monitor the link over the next few hours. – Eli, Russ, Dane

Mon Apr 9 19:02:54 PDT 2001 — We’re currently seeing some instability in Cable & Wireless’s network or in our link to them. While our UUNet T3 is bearing the additional load, we’re seeing some sluggish performance to some sites or intermittent un-reachability due to the time required for route convergence. We’re working with C&W to isolate the trouble now. -Dane and Russ

Thu Apr 5 16:38:39 PDT 2001 — Sonic.net was featured in today’s Press Democrat story about Northpoint’s shutdown of their DSL network. Sonic.net does not partner with Northpoint, a DSL provider who’s bankruptcy has turned into a nightmare for their connected customers. We’ve been able to step in and provide quick access solutions to end-users stranded without access by Northpoint’s sudden demise. For the full story, see:

216.167.95.20/business/news/05dsl_e1.html

Wed Apr 4 17:40:52 PDT 2001 — Sonic.net is offering free DSL equipment while supplies last! Pacific Bell today increased the price of DSL equipment to $253, up from $199. In response to this, Sonic.net has obtained 130 DSL modems, and we’re going to give them away to the next 130 viable orders for DSL service that we receive. This is first come, first served, so if you’ve been considering moving to DSL service, now is the time to do it! We expect that we will run out of these units very fast, so order quickly. The order form and sales page now have a count-down object which will show you how many units are left; look for the number of units still available in red.

www.sonic.net/sales/dsl/pacbell/

Note that equipment is not reserved until the order form has been submitted completely. If you visit and find that there are units available, please fill the form quickly to avoid someone else getting them before you! There are only 130 units, and it’s strictly first come, first served, once they’re gone, they’re gone. -Dane, David, JenD, Lori, Jen and Steve

Update – as of now, Mon Apr 9 17:23:17 PDT 2001, there are 44 units left. If you’re interested in getting the free DSL equipment, place your order quickly. -Dane

Mon Apr 2 11:27:14 PDT 2001 — On Wednesday April 11th, sometime between midnight and 3:00AM PST, Cable & Wireless will be doing maintenance configuration changes on our T3 to them. Expected downtime is about ten minutes, and our UUNet T3 will take on the traffic while the C&W link is down. You may notice slightly slower performance while this work is being done. -Dane

Sun Apr 1 19:15:32 PDT 2001 — We were experiencing ‘Error 629’ messages when people were dialing our 522-1003 dialup pool. The dialup gear on the front side of this hunt group was locked up. After a quick reboot the problem went away. – Steve