Date: 14 Nov 1998 05:33:28 -0000 From: "AMARJOT SINGH" <ASINGH00@HOTMAIL.COM> To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: t-1 from whom? Message-ID: <19981114053328.19100.qmail@findmail.com> In-Reply-To: <36155347.63A2@echidna.com>
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Did you try T-1 from Qwest LCI ? I bet they have a better price than $1000/month. Graphic Rezidew wrote: > > > > Hi, I run a network over my dual channel ISDN connection to do some shell, > > mail, and web-serving. As one would imagine, I am saturating my bandwidth. > > I have decided to get a T-1 and am considering service from AT-WORK (a > > company affiliated with AT-HOME, the cable modem people). The price is > > quite fair $1000/mo for a line that is basicly only restricting me from > > providing dial-up, based on the terms of usage doc. > > The Thing that concerns me is that their network is so NEW...I am > > wondering if they have clean through put to the rest of the internet. > > > > If anyone uses them Please let me know what your experience has been. > > > > NOTE: I am not interested in hearing about how swell your cable modem is. > > I am not signing up for cable modem service. This will be a real > > T-1 on a network seperate from AT-HOME. > > > You don't say what region you are in. We seriously considered getting T-1 > into our NYC office before deciding to go with colocation instead. One of > the T-1 candidates was @home - their price was good, but we got nervous > about their quality. > > Please don't read this as a condemnation of them, as the evidence is too > slim, but you could consider it a red flag. We had a client with partial T-1 > from @home into their NYC office. I tried accessing their webserver from > various points external to @home's network. I was not satisfied with the > results, in particular it looked like there might be problems with their > peering into particular networks. The same networks worked fine with Exodus, > NJ (one of our colo candidates). But about this time the @home issue became > moot at we switched our focus to colo. > > Ask @home for a list of clients that are connected via whatever point you > will be. Access (http, ping, traceroute) those clients webservers, etc. from > a variety of ISP's, etc. You might also want to ask @home for specific > details of their network and headroom policies. > > > -- > Graeme Tait - Echidna > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > > ----- See the original message at http://www.egroups.com/list/freebsd-isp/?start=7564 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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