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=============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ =============================================================================== ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 10:04:34 -0600 (EST) From: Gilbert Sebenste <address@hidden> To: address@hidden Subject: Update on trouble with Internet from weather.admin.niu.edu Hello all, I found out what the problem is. When we upgraded to a 100 MB/sec vs a 10 MB/sec bandwidth intranet route, it takes extra "hops" to get to our T3. As a result, the network hardware routes me to the Internet with the fewest "hops"...the T1 connection. They are adding equipment which will balance this so that in the future, I will be going through the T3 with outgoing traffic. But that will take weeks, if not months, for that to happen. In the meantime, they said we could get on the outgoing T3 but it would be at a substantial cost which I cannot afford. And it would be stupid to do so as in the next few months that problem will be rectified. Sooooo....what I guess I am trying to tell all my downstream sites is if you are having trouble or delayed data in the afternoons, please feed off the backup until this is resolved. Our main campus network guy is being unsympathetic, so I am stuck on the T1 outgoing for possibly up to a few months before this is resolved. Also, our T3 has had problems overnight which they are working on right now. Sorry for the inconvenience... Gilbert ******************************************************************************* Gilbert Sebenste ******** Internet: address@hidden (My opinions only!) ****** Staff Meteorologist, Northern Illinois University **** Work phone: 815-753-5492 *** *******************************************************************************