🚀 go-pugleaf

Frank Kahle wrote:
> 
>  Ralph Doncaster wrote in article <339380B3.7541F6AB@doncaster.on.nospam.ca>
> >As things stand now in town, I think the *best* an ISP could do for
> >bandwith would be dual homed RNS and UUNet.  Reason; UUnet has lots
> >of good connections, and at least on the Canadian side has a reputation
> >for running a good network.  RNS because they seem to be the only one
> >with CA*Net peering (otherwise going through MCI->CA*Net is quite
> >painful)
> >
> 
> Don't agree with that, IGS is using ONET so we are directly on the ca*NET
> network and its very fast for us into the states, Our slowest links are to
> IStar.  We are peered to RNS (because of ONET) but the RNS network seems
> very sluggish.  We have been talking to RNS for our Vancouver expansion,
> but we told them that we are hesitant due to the slow responses on their
> network.

I'm sorry but I'll have to disagree with your disagreement.
Throughput *may* be OK for modem users, but when I've connected to BGS,
IGS, and Newbridge from another T1 connected server (one on Sprint,
another
on IStar and UUnet), anything into CA*Net using their MCI gateway was
slow.
I have never seen an ftp get more than 40K/sec taking that route, while
I
have seen 175K/s going from Sprint->MCI->Istar (ordinary speeds for that
hop are 50-100K/s)
(See my post "Bell can't support ADSL bandwith" in ott.online for more
details)

-Ralph

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