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It looks like the connection problems are over (at least mine are). Finally! I've never experienced an outage that lasted this long. Hopefully now we've seen the end of it.

The whole country is suffering from a huge outage of internet connections, and I'm one of them. It started yesterday morning and it looked like it was solved this morning. During the day I could connect to my server without any problems, but coming home, it took a turn for the worse. I don't know how long this is going to last, but it surely is nasty!

My server is now running on a Pentium 4 instead of a Pentium 3, with 80-pin ATA instead of 40-pin ATA, and I can really notice the difference! I was first worried about how much extra energy this server would use, but after connecting it to my UPS (with the three hard disks and the DVD writer of course), it looks like it is only a few percent more when not very busy and maybe ten percent more when really busy (like backing up, or remirroring).

Pity for my girlfriend; she'll have to make do with her Pentium 3 for now...