Hi John,
Are you taking my name in vain?
Richard
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Clegg" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 9:41 AM
Subject: Re: NHSnet internet access = poor again
>I had a wonderful experience with N3
>
> 1) I went to their status page. It took so long to load that it timed
> out before giving me the information
>
> 2) I contacted the email address given - which is labelled as NPFIT
> National Helpdesk
>
> 3) I got a reply, from the National Helpdesk, saying "we are in Leeds,
> contact the National Helpdesk
>
> 4) I wrote (politely for me) telling them that they ARE the National
> Helpdesk, and asking for information about the national situation
>
> 5) They replied asking my postcode and which sites I was having
> trouble accessing.
>
> 6) I replied in a manner that Richard Johnson would have been proud of.
>
> On 02/01/07, Stephen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Agree, absolutely bloody awful today. C&B, email & nhs.net ok, external
>> pings resolved but slow enough to time-out at times. Gave up trying to
>> look up something on www.dwp.gov.uk in the end.
>>
>> Alistair Holmes wrote:
>> > Access to Nww sites has been fine at 'normal speeds' but to www such as
>> > patient.co.uk drops out half of the time, was fine for about 1 hr
>> > around
>> > 1100hrs, then browser reported revisiting its proxy settings so I guess
>> > trouble at squid or whatever they use.
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Dr Laurie Miles [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> > Sent: 02 January 2007 16:06
>> > To: [log in to unmask]
>> > Subject: NHSnet internet access = poor again
>> >
>> > Today access to WWW has been very slow and often times out. E-mail
>> > seems to
>> > be getting through, albeit slowly. Yet again the NHS saddles the
>> > mission/patient critical IT of GP practices with an Internet service
>> > that is
>> > worse than dial-up.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>>
>> Stephen
>>
>
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