🚀 go-pugleaf

Wait 'till you're actually *on* the MCI backbone and try to
connect to another backbone... The packet loss rates will vary
between 25% and 90%, and the ones that *do* get through will
take forever...

mtenney@megalink.net (Mark) wrote:

>OK..here's my opinion of my MCI experience so far:

>I have ONE positive experience. That is the actual meeting with our
>account rep up here, and the related arrangements for a 45 day turn
>up.  After that EVERYTHING has been a fiasco.  I found out that
>information he provided us about MCI's reliability was patently
>UNTRUE, MCI's connections are LESS reliable than Sprints as far as
>outages, etc. go. MCI's bandwidth is essentially the same as Sprints
>and the other backbone carriers. Our salesperson stated that MCI has
>by FAR the largest bandwidth on the Internet and that they indeed
>carry 40%+ of all Internet traffic. The new information I've been
>reading states that MCI is currently upgrading from 45mbps to 166mbps.
>Well buly for them! The still only have 45mbps bandwidth, so they
>misinformed us.
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