Midcoast Internet Solutions
System
News & Notices
February 1998
- Feb 26, 1998 Four new lines were activated in Damariscotta. All
four tested out at 31200 in tests on Friday.
- Feb 24, 1998 An "Incompatible Set of Protocols" problem on one
of Washington's lines was fixed today. Three more lines were ordered as
well.
- Feb 23, 1998 Busies in Damariscotta this evening. Lines are being ordered.
- Feb 23, 1998 A "ring-no answer" was fixed in Damariscotta this afternoon.
- Feb 21, 1998 Washington was upgraded to 10 lines today.
- Feb 20, 1998 During the day we will be installing MailSpinner
on all three mail servers; midcoast.com, free.midcoast.com, and
lincoln.midcoast.com. We are very excited to be able to offer this service
to ALL of our email accounts.
- Feb 19, 1998 2am. New modems were installed in Damariscotta. There was about 30 minutes of
downtime during this period on some lines. Job was complete by 4am
- Feb 18, 1998 The MailSpinner will be brought on line again
sometime Thursday.
- Feb 17, 1998 3 more lines were added to Liberty for a total of 8.
- Feb 16, 1998 A slowness problem today was tracked down to a MCI
router problem in Boston. Those in charge of that are telling us it will
be fixed tonight. We'll keep you posted.
- Feb 16, 1998 A small problem with the time machine is
being corrected right now. (4pm)
- Feb 14, 1998 At 6am, we will be replacing the router to
Rockland. This will take about 10 minutes. The replacement of the router
went well this morning. Please let us know on the help BBS if this
improves speed and consistency or causes problems! Thanks!
- Feb 13, 1998 If the 596-2410 number is causing trouble, please feel
free to use the new 593-8000 number. It is still officially under testing, but
it works great for most people.
- Feb 13, 12:30am We will be changing some equipment in hopes of
correcting the T1 slowdown. This will take about 5 minutes.
- Feb 10, 1998 Bell Atlantic is doing further work on the T1
problem to Rockland. This has caused slowed performance for two of our
eight POPs. They may at times, bring down the circuit without warning :-(
- Feb 10, 1998 We will be working on the time machine today, as
it is not working properly.
- Feb 9, 1998 Late this afternoon, we have experienced some
errors on the T1 from the Rockland POP to Owls Head. This has been
reported to Bell Atlantic. They *might* take it out of service for a few
minutes to test it this evening.
- Feb 9, 1998 Netscape Communicator is
available from our
useful software page. Netscape is a popular web browser which was recently
made free, and MIS has authorization to distribute it.
- Feb 6, 1998 At Midnight, we are scheduling an upgrade
for c6h22o11, a webserver. We will be doubling the processor speed, and
adding more RAM. This will take about 5 minutes.
- Feb 3, 1998 Tonight we are scheduling an upgrade for the ISDN
server at midnight. This will affect ISDN users for about 1 minute.
- Feb 3, 1998 USR has supplied an X2 fix for our 593-8000 pool.
We will be implementing this Wednesday morning.
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