re[2]: [SLE] Linux / OpenSource ISP
I would advise looking into a company called Broadwing (www.broadwing.com I think) once you get up and going. They have provided the company I work for with a FAT pipe. There are a few other T providers that will work pretty hard to undercut Qwest on price, but IMO, Qwest has done a decent job with our stuff.
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A couple years ago Qwest had reliability issues in the South Eastern US. The price was good, but I had to migrate a couple of my customers off of them because of the reliability problems. One important thing is that Qwest was _meeting_ their SLA. For my customers, the SLA said that the T1 to Qwest had to be up pass data. It said nothing about Qwest being able to connect to various places on the Web. We found Qwest to experience frequent large scale outages. i.e. No access to Callifornia for 3 days. etc. We tracked the problem down to pier-2-pier exchanges between Qwest and other large ISPs. Apparently crackers would often attack these connections and disrupt service. My data is definitely a couple of years old. Greg
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 13:26, Greg Freemyer wrote:
I would advise looking into a company called Broadwing (www.broadwing.com I think) once you get up and going. They have provided the company I work for with a FAT pipe. There are a few other T providers that will work pretty hard to undercut Qwest on price, but IMO, Qwest has done a decent job with our stuff.
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A couple years ago Qwest had reliability issues in the South Eastern US.
The price was good, but I had to migrate a couple of my customers off of them because of the reliability problems.
One important thing is that Qwest was _meeting_ their SLA.
For my customers, the SLA said that the T1 to Qwest had to be up pass data. It said nothing about Qwest being able to connect to various places on the Web.
We found Qwest to experience frequent large scale outages. i.e. No access to Callifornia for 3 days. etc.
We tracked the problem down to pier-2-pier exchanges between Qwest and other large ISPs. Apparently crackers would often attack these connections and disrupt service.
My data is definitely a couple of years old.
Greg
Add to this that ALL of QWest allocated IP addresses are being blocked by anti spam black lists. Try and get email delivered to you when you are on one of the black lists. Ken
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