--- In pafreenet@yahoogroups.com, "rearviewmirrortornoff"
<rearviewmirrortornoff@...> wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I have been experiencing some trouble with my Internet the last 5
> days. I can connect to PAFREE, or it appears that I do when reading
> my connect speed, however when going to homepage of Yahoo it just
> hangs up with "Waiting for website to reply..." and eventually times
out.
>
> Weird...I just wondered if anyone else was having any problems or if
> there is a known issue at this time.
>
> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Janine
>

Hi Janine,

One of the radios we use in the freenet has gone bad and we are
operating on an older one until the replacement comes in. The older
radio doesn't put out nearly as much power (200mW vs 370mW) as the
broken one and so their is a high level of packet loss right now. I'll
make a posting once the new radio arrives.

You would think a radio with a MTBF of > 500,000 hours would last more
than a year or so. :/ We just replaced it in Feb of 2007 and of course
it goes bad right after the warranty is out. haha

Thanks for your message.

paul