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Aaron Fu (ayf@acpub.duke.edu) wrote:
: 
: excuse my ignorance, but I thought that a lot of the hoo-ah about loss
: of connectivity to the great evil bandwidth eater was just
: sensationalism, but after looking at that site, lots of big-name
: providers experience long periods of > 10%  packet loss.  Anyone else
: hear about the i2 thing? 
: 
: In any case, is there any significantly provider provider than Sprint?

My T1 lines and ISDN are provisioned by BellSouth. Since they got me up 
and running in December on their system, I have not had any measurable 
packet loss at all. And I mean none.

No down timne. No dropped connections. Nothing. And the one problem that 
I did experience back in December when they were initially provisioning 
was amazing. There was a major problem with the ground copper that needed 
to be replaced. In the meantime, rather than giving me lame excuses, 
senior engineers were here on site at 2 AM on a Sunday morning in the 
rain hanging a stretch of overhead wire one and a half miles from my 
pedestal to the slic. They were stapling the thing to trees and power 
poles. I have never seen that kind of efficient response from any company.

My T! generally goes from my local router then to the Cisco 7000 at the 
peering point as the very next jump. On occasion when I do a trace route, 
I will jump into the Atlanta NOC and then home off to a number of 
different peering routers (but never more than just one until it crosses 
over to the other system.) Their system is set up that way to provide 
instant redundency on all connections and it works.

Steve Crisp
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http://www.pageplop.com