Dave, (sorry for an on-topic single liner, followed by an off-topic rant :D)
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So a question I'll throw open, to try and help keep the network better balanced would you think it would be a good idea for us to do a weekly or twicely weekly regular session of load balancing? We can schedule it to happen out of hours and ensure we don't disconnect certain groups of customers (for example business users are excluded normally) but this could help in a big way in keeping the network in balance.
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I'd be really,
really unhappy if you regularly disconnected (even briefly) my connection - out-of-hours - e.g. for load balancing, or whatever.
Why? Because over 50% of my bandwidth usage is automated to occur between 00:01 and 07:00 and I have no way of
automatically in an unattended way recovering from an ADSL disconnection event.
On a similar subject, I'd really, really appreciate a means of having a "preferred list" of gateways (yes, this kind of goes agin your objective, maybe?)
Why? Well, when I first joined PlusNet I had a fabulous service, with good speeds and as a bonus a special feature that meant if I typed the URL of a site host on my ADSL line into a browser e.g.
http://www.example.com/ it would route - and work - successfully.
This state of true serendipity continued for a couple of months - then it changed, and I had much, much poorer web browsing speeds (using the same setup) the facility of routing to my own site via a browser e.g.
http://www.example.com/ ; failed to work for several months - to the point hwere I wondered if I'd misremembered and it was my old ISP that provided the good browsing and local site routing.
Then two days ago - BINGO! The magic browsing experience returned along with being able again to browse e.g.
http://www.example.com/ ; (remember, a site hosted on my own ADSL line) works again! It will be a real b***** if/when my connection drops next and I get a different (non-golden) gateway.
Note, I have recorded every gateway I've used (EXCEPT the first one - didn't know how back then), so can categorically say, that of all the gateways I've used ONLY ONE works well for me!
All provide pretty much the same speed (my sync speed is pretty consistent from one connection to the next) and basic up- and down- load performance as measured by
http://www.mybroadbandspeed.co.uk/ are nearly the same each time, also ping, traceroute and LayerFourTraceroutes (LFT) are very similar between my "golden" gateway, and all the others.
From a users perspective (a notoriously unreliable viewpoint - but all I have :-*)
it seems one gateway is configured very well indeed - and all the rest...aren't configured at all well. I'm fairly techy so if you wish to know more, feel free to contact me offline I use a mix of PCs(WinXP) and Macs(OS X), some running both via VMs, and both WinXP & OS X demonstrate this effect, I have tried more than 7 routers (I have for brief period configured routers for others, and borrowed a couple too, for short periods).
