Thousands of AOL UK users lose connection

["Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Ken Young writes on vnunet.com:

[snip]

Thousands of UK AOL subscribers lost broadband connectivity earlier this week as a result of a faulty network fix sent 
out by the firm as part of a broadband upgrade.

AOL sent pop-ups to 50,000 subscribers which when clicked on disabled their connections. AOL admitted that around half 
of its subscribers lost connection.

The pop-up announced: "We are conducting a network upgrade and need you to adapt your settings." It then offered a 
series of options.

Those who clicked on the pop-up lost their connections and were unable to reconnect. As a result thousands of 
subscribers besieged the AOL helpdesk.

[snip]

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2142728/thousands-aol-users-lose

- ferg

p.s. ....and a 3.6 quake hits L.A, area this morning:

 http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/23/california.quakes.ap/index.html

But that's just a small one. :-)


--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

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