That isn't the only issue. I've just found that Southern Bell does bandwidth limiting on their residential customers. Most folks would never know the difference, but when v.90 modems start consistantly connecting at 14.4K, or less, then I know that the telco is only allowing 32K per voice channel (rather than the usual 64K). BTW, that was using AT&T universal LD from Graham, NC, to Livermore, CA. I only ever got full-speed late at night.

-----Original Message----- From: multics@ruserved.com [mailto:multics@ruserved.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 8:47 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Cc: multics@ruserved.com Subject: Dialup congestion and winter weather (fwd)

An important question to ask people reporting this type of problem is are they getitng a normal busy (all modems busy) or a fast busy (telco out of circuits). Two very different problems. An ISP can work on fixing the first, but the second is a telco with a shortage of circuits between the customer and the isp.

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It seems like a lot of people are at home, dialing into the Internet today. There is a major ice storm in the middle of the country, and its pretty much a holiday week elsewhere. Traffic seems to be moving on the major backbones, but some folks in the midwest report some problems dialing in from home.

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