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Gregory Wood wrote:
> 
> In article <5b1fco$7lu@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com>, machiav@ix.netcom.com
> addresses some concerns about NEGIA...

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> NEGIA is proud of the fact we started with the best systems available and
> have been upgrading ever since. To my knowledge, NEGIA is the only local
> provider to start with a full T1 from day one. We run a full Sun
> Workstation and use the best modems (US Robotics Couriers). To this day,
> we only use approximately 1/3 of our total bandwidth. NEGIA is looking to
> the possibility of upgrading that with redundant links sometime in the
> future. In short, we are NOT running short on bandwidth. In fact, I often
> get the maximum transfer rate on my modem (28.8).

I am sure that Gregory Wood is accurate in his statements above, but due
to a couple of factors, I would like to set the record straight on
Athens, Isp (which is not AthensNET i.e., athensnet.com, but simply
athens.net).  This is not a rebuttal to his statements just additional
information disclosed to the public about local ISPs.  I am, by the way,
an employee of Athens ISP.

Just for the record, Athens' Isp uses the following setup:

A full T-1 from Sprintlink.  Statistics on the saturation level of this
connection are public domain information.  Our connection was not a full
T-1 as the infomation above indicates when we started business. 
However, it is a full T-1 now and our customers and the curious can view
stats on our link at http://www.athens.net/restricted/utils/apollo.cgi 
You can see other various network connectivity diagnostics, like ping
and traceroute from our server also, at
http://www.athens.net/restricted/utils/

We are considering MCI, UUnet, and BBNplanet for our second T-1,
tentatively due in the next 210 days.

This web page will also show stats on our modem utilization based on
percentage.  Our dial up infrastructure is based exclusively on the
Ascend Max switch which can handle 33.6K modem connections, 64K ISDN &
128K ISDN, and Frame-relay connections for us.  Our phone lines are
delivered as Primary Rate ISDN (PRI 64K/channel, not channelized T-1
robbed-bit 56K/channel).  We did not originally use the Ascend
equipment, before we upgraded to it we used US Robotics Total Control V.
Everything, Hayes Century Rack Modems, and we tried other equipment.  At
that time our phone lines were delivered as analog lines.

Our services are spread out over three main Unix servers and one Windows
NT server.  The Unix servers we have are one BSDI server and two R5000
Silicon Graphics workstations.

I hope that this information will help dispell any misconceptions about
Athens ISP, especially about the name versus domain name situation with
Athens ISP (http://www.athens.net) and AthensNET
(http://www.athensnet.com).

--
Jim Freeman
Athens ISP - Systems Administrator

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> Gregory Wood
> Technical Support - NorthEast Georgia Internet Access