[AusNOG] iiNet in Trading Halt...

[Adrian Chadd]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010, John Edwards wrote:

> Remember in 1995 when the ISP was busy there was always one bad modem that answered your call but didn't sync? No-one ever found it amongst the cabling.. they just kept adding more lines to make it statistically insignificant until 56K dialup gave them a reason to go with ISDN indial.

*laughs* I remember having one of the slightly older (than the 16yo Adrian)
ISP admins drop a rather useful hint to me. Soon after, I started plotting
connect rate and length graphs - it soon showed both bad modems and dodgy
cables. Ah, Perl and GD..


Adrian