[Elecraft] Elecraft Website

[Lynn W. Taylor, WB6UUT]

Patience.  Seriously.

We need to think about two questions:

Who owns the internet?

How is it managed?

The answers: nobody owns the internet.  It's a network of networks 
("Internet" is a contraction of inter-network, the protocol to tie 
multiple networks together).

The various network owners manage their own networks.  The really large 
networks can be called "backbones" but even that term is somewhat 
meaningless.

The "management" is essentially chaotic.  Nobody is driving the bus, but 
people make sure that all of the bus parts end up at the next stop.

 From here (on Verizon's dismal rural DSL) there are five networks on 
the way to Elecraft.  Any one of them can have a bad day and I'd have 
trouble reaching www.Elecraft.com.

The one thing I'm certain of is that all of us follow different paths 
through different networks, and any of those intermediate sites can have 
trouble.

The odds are that it's not your provider, and it's not their provider, 
it's someone in-between, and generally speaking, they won't take 
complaints from you because you don't pay them. They'll fix it sooner or 
later, because someone who does pay them will be having issues.

The amazing thing is that most of the time the internet is incredibly 
reliable.  It's mostly self-healing.  Mostly.  Kinda.

It's fun to talk about.

73 -- Lynn

On 12/31/2015 11:22 AM, Robert Dorchuck wrote:
> I am still unable to connect to the Elecraft website.  I have 
> re-booted, cleared everything that I know of and re-booted the modem.  
> Any ideas?  I have Verizon FIOS and do not have any other sites that I 
> cannot connect to (that I know of).
> Bob  W6VY