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In article <4kpsor$1uo@news.internetmci.com> David Fisher <David.Fisher@internetmci.com> writes:
>Funny,
>If MCI is so bad, why when you trace alternet and BBN, do you end up at 
>an MCI gateway?  Maybe MCI is not so bad afterall!

As someone involved with a customer of InternetMCI since the end of the NSFnet,
I can say that things were doing very well until the beginning of this year.
Then, the T-3 backbone was beginning to be overloaded. The  OC-3c backbone
deployment is helping with this problem, but to say that no-one has complained
is just not true. I have been one of the ones who has complained about 
problems with traffic during the first quarter of this year.

>Also consider why MCI has been as involved with the internet "backbone" 
>serving 7 of the 8 origional regional providers with Sesquenet (the 8th) 
>gaining access through MCI's commercial (non NSF.Net) offering at 10Mbps 
>connection.

If "Sesquenet" is really SESQUINET, then your information is wrong. SESQUINET
has been using a 25Mb/sec connection since the beginning of the fall last year.


>Give it a break, everyone that I speak with that is directly connected to 
>MCI, is very pleased with the service.

Quoting from <199603262044.OAA17564@academ.com>, sent March 26, 1996, I sent 
this message to the MCI NOC:

> I have a number of customers who are complaining to me about problems getting
> to sites that you have routed via San Francisco. Traceroutes to all these
> sites have this in common:
> 
>  5  core-hssi-3.Bloomington.mci.net (204.70.1.34)  29.8/31.8/47.2 (2.67) ms  100/100 pkts (0% loss)
>  6  core2-hssi-2.SanFrancisco.mci.net (204.70.1.42)  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  46. 9/145/469 (134) ms  92/100 pkts (8% loss)
>  7  core1-aip-4.SanFrancisco.mci.net (204.70.1.53)  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * 43.2/64.8/278 (46.5) ms  91/100 pkts (9% loss)
> 
> Can't we do better than 8% loss on the line between Bloomington and San
> Francisco?

Quoting from <199603262056.UAA09186@lithium.cary.mci.net>, MCI's NOC reponded:
>Stan,
>Unfortunately there is nothing we can do until the upgrades are complete.  
>This is not uncommon given the present state of congestion.  The upgrades are 
>scheduled to begin April 15.  This is all the informtion we have available at 
>this time.


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