Date: August 5'Th, 2008
Time: Midnight - 3 AM
Affected: All customers.
We will be replacing equipment located in Bernie Tuesday morning August 5'Th. Work should take approximately 3 hours to complete. During this time internet traffic will be disrupted intermittently.
We have completed patching our DNS servers to protect against possible 'DNS Poisoning'. More information on the vulnerability is available here.
We have upgraded our Barracuda Spam Firewall. Quarantines on the old server will still be available for two weeks as we will be removing the old hardware on July 2'nd. All user settings including white lists and black lists have been tranfered to the new server, quarantined messages however could not be transfered.
The final statistics, collected over 16 months, are as follows:
Total Messages Recieved: 67,619,317
Total Messages Allowed: 2,416,149 - 3.57%
At 10:54AM today we suffered a direct lightning strike to our primary NOC in Bernie. Internet service was restored at 1:34PM, however some equipment was damaged in the strike and will need to be replaced. We will send an alert as to when a service affecting outage may occur.
Thanks for your understanding.
Management, BPS Networks
Date: March 13, 2008
Time: Midnight - 3 AM
Affected: All Bernie DSL and Dialup customers.
We will be upgrading the power located in Bernie Thursday morning March 13'Th. Work should take approximately 3 hours to complete. During this time internet traffic will be disrupted.
BPS Networks is proud to announce 3M DSL service is now available to customers in Bernie, Parma, Steele, Denton and Holland!
Date: December 5, 2007
Time: Midnight - 3 AM
Affected: All Steele, Cooter, Denton and Holland customers.
We will be upgrading the core routers located in Steele Wednesday morning December 5'Th. Work should take approximately 3 hours to complete. During this time internet traffic will be disrupted.
We've added a link to allow you, our customer, to view some of the statistics gathered from our Barracuda Spam Firewall. The link is just above in the orange quick-link bar titled 'Spam Statistics'. As of today we have processed 34,032,259 emails and of that only 1,254,979 have been accepted for delivery meaning roughly 96% of all email coming to our customers is rejected as spam.
BPS Networks is proud to once again to support the Malden Greenwave Football team by broadcasting the games live online at: SemoSportsLive.
Date: August 7'th, 2007
Time: Midnight - 3AM
Affected: Bernie and Parma DSL
We will be doing work on the DSL networks in Bernie and Parma, during the time frames above, intermittent internet connectivity is likely.