I agree with Jason, it's going to be the "luck of the draw" as far as the
competency of the Engineering staff that you will have assigned to work with
you. We're turned up Internet connections with AT&T, Sprint and Internap.
We were lucky and all three were pretty good as far as the BGP
configurations went. However, the latency and subsequent response time for
our E-commerce users in different parts of the country varied widely between
the three with AT&T being by far the worst. IMHO, you can work through most
of the initial configuration and setup issues but support and response time
is something you will live with for a long time. Consider these factors as
well.
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From: Jason J. Roysdon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 10:06 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: What ISP do you recommend for BGP?? [7:1295]
It's all going to depend on the luck of the draw as to the engineer you get,
I think, at least to some degree (same is true of Cisco TAC, and they're the
top as far as support goes, IMHO). Mind you I've only turned up two BGP
connections, but Sprint was totally on the ball and great to work with.
WorldCom/UUNET was incompetent and I had to walk him through a number for
things like getting a default route advertised from them, what customer-only
routes mean, etc. (lucky for me I did them after Sprint). Check Boardwatch
for ISP costs and latency comparisons. WorldCom is directly connected to
nearly 50% of prefixes advertised. I believe Sprint has like 30%.
http://www.boardwatch.com/
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> Hi,
> Does anyone have a recommendation or horror story for best ISP to work
with
> for implementing BGP?
> I am thinking of picking between Worldcom, ATT and Qwest.
> Thanks
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