post 102

By anders pearson 18 Sep 2000

the network here has been seriously screwed up lately. last night i missed a deadline because of it. i was supposed to electronically submit some homework by midnight. so, of course, promptly at 23:00, the network goes down and doesn’t come back until some time after i give up and go to bed.

today it’s working in some places and completely screwed up in others. i can connect to columbia’s main server from my machine in my dorm no problem. from the main server, i can connect anywhere else pretty quickly. but trying to connect to another machine outside columbia (or even on a different subnet on campus) barely works. it does work, so i know it’s not just a problem with my routing tables; but it works with like 1byte/second rates. so right now i’m using lynx on the main server to make this entry.