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In article <jolo-ya02408000R2504971802040001@news.duke.edu>,
Jolo <jolo@NO_SPAMdeckard.mc.duke.edu> wrote:

>Considering that there is very little between us and DC, the "reliability"
>of Sprintnet locally is next to useless.  MCI was certainly not without its

Actually, the Sprint router in DC is the first router you hit after ncren, so
when that goes down, we can only reach the triangle area networks.

>faults, but we never ever had these consistent, daily, nonstop problems, as
>documented by our own Duke-originated pings & traceroutes as well as
>measurements from other locations such as www.netstat.net or
>www.internetweather.com.

>In the prelapsarian days of MCI, I didn't mind realistic, occasional
>problems indicative of Internet-wide saturation, especially when they are
>fixed relatively quickly.  What I can't stand now is suffering 20-100%
>packet losses lasting for hours nearly every day, with a baseline loss
>level between 10-20% even during the best of times, compounded by
>horrendous routing.  There is NO question that the MCI to Sprintnet switch
>resulted in a drop of quality to a level well below what we need.

agreed.

-- Ben
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