Re: "Bandwidth Advisors" - www.bandwidthadvisors.com

2005-03-28 Thread Joe Hamelin
I run all my bandwidth purchases through BWA. I've worked with Aaron since we were both at Wolfe.net. He's the most honest sales type that I've ever met. And I agree that NANOG is NOT the place to post this, but the cat is out of the bag. Notice: I'm biased as I host his site and my wife made

RE: "Bandwidth Advisors" - www.bandwidthadvisors.com

2005-03-26 Thread Randy Bush
>>> The NANOG list is not an appropriate place for speculative critiques of >>> the business models of individual companies. >> censorship rears its ugly head again. thank you censors. this >> is sick. > No, this is not censorship at all. since i am helping folk who seem not able to do their li

RE: "Bandwidth Advisors" - www.bandwidthadvisors.com

2005-03-26 Thread Hannigan, Martin
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Randy Bush > Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 3:44 AM > To: Malayter, Christopher > Cc: nanog@merit.edu > Subject: RE: "Bandwidth Advisors" - www.bandwidthadvisors.com >

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2005-03-26 Thread Randy Bush
> The NANOG list is not an appropriate place for speculative critiques of > the business models of individual companies. > > Furthermore, this thread has gone completely off topic. Please take it > off-list. > > For the nanog list administrators, censorship rears its ugly head again. thank yo

RE: "Bandwidth Advisors" - www.bandwidthadvisors.com

2005-03-25 Thread Malayter, Christopher
Services Data Network Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (608) 664-4878 FAX:(608) 664-4644 -Original Message- From: Mark Radabaugh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 12:51 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: "Bandwidth Advisors" - www.bandwidthad

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2005-03-25 Thread Mark Radabaugh
For those that don't know... I am now the COO of UnitedLayer. It sounds like, since I am not going to pay the "extortion" fee to Bandwidth Advisors, that their consultants won't know about our pricing and services. Even if I did pay the fee, that means that their clients can't get the best

Re: "Bandwidth Advisors" - www.bandwidthadvisors.com

2005-03-25 Thread Paul G
- Original Message - From: "Tim Pozar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Hannigan, Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 7:29 PM Subject: Re: "Bandwidth Advisors" - www.bandwidthadvisors.com --- snip --- > I know a bunch

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2005-03-25 Thread Daniel Golding
Tim, I hope you're joking. "Extortion" means something pretty specific, legally. There is absolutely no extortion going on here. The appropriate term is "agency". Its a pretty widely used concept in the business world. In terms of the integrity of Bandwidth Advisors or any other consultant - its

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2005-03-25 Thread Cameron Jones
| Cell: 206-369- Spry Web Hosting | 800: 1.888.808.SPRY | Fax: 206-984-3423 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Pozar Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 4:29 PM To: Hannigan, Martin Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re:

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2005-03-24 Thread Tim Pozar
Hannigan, Martin wrote: They're brokers. There's really nothing wrong with what they are doing, although they may not have explained it to you too well. I guess not. What they do is become an agent, or reseller, for a company and they get a residual on anyone they refer. So if you are a corp IT guy

Re: "Bandwidth Advisors" - www.bandwidthadvisors.com

2005-03-24 Thread Paul G
- Original Message - From: "Tim Pozar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 6:57 PM Subject: "Bandwidth Advisors" - www.bandwidthadvisors.com > > Just got a call from "Tosten" of a company called "Bandwidth > Advis

RE: "Bandwidth Advisors" - www.bandwidthadvisors.com

2005-03-24 Thread Hannigan, Martin
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Tim Pozar > Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 6:58 PM > To: nanog@merit.edu > Subject: "Bandwidth Advisors" - www.bandwidthadvisors.com > > > > Just got a call from

"Bandwidth Advisors" - www.bandwidthadvisors.com

2005-03-24 Thread Tim Pozar
Just got a call from "Tosten" of a company called "Bandwidth Advisors". They represent themselves as a "Independent Telco & Colo Consultants" (see web page). Seems that they are calling around ISPs and asking them if they have an "agent" program. After talking to him a bit I find out that they