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Re: Thursday Hawaii telephone mishap

  • From: Sean Donelan
  • Date: Sun Oct 28 16:35:04 2001 
On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Steve Goldstein wrote:
> >I wonder if we have reached the cross-over point, and the Internet is
> >now effectively more reliable than the public telephone network.
>
> FYI, at about the time of the break, I was engaged in a Web-based
> meeting that included the Maui Supercomputer Center.  We were using a
> phone bridge in San Jose, CA.  The phone conversation persisted, but
> Maui's Internet connection dropped.

I don't know what type of network links the Maui Supercomputer Center
has.  Whether it was a problem with a commercial Internet provider or
something specific to the Maui spercomputer center.