Re: [WISPA] Customer dropped branch

2005-10-07 Thread Scott Reed
Yep.  Replaced radio last night. Broken RJ45 female to female coupler, but couldn't tell what else got strained.  Still doesn't work.  Climber (on a TV tower) fond some nasty stretch/scuffs in the cat 5, so we will be replacing that as well, since we still have loosy connectivity with great

Re: [WISPA] PTP Link

2005-10-07 Thread Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181
how fast do you need it to go? How reliable does it need to be? Marlon (509) 982-2181 Equipment sales (408) 907-6910 (Vonage)Consulting services 42846865 (icq)And I run my own wisp! 64.146.146.12 (net

Re: [WISPA] Cogent - Level3 Current News

2005-10-07 Thread Frank Muto
Level 3 Issues Ultimatum Restores connectivity to Cogent until Nov 9 Posted 2005-10-07 19:15:54 After restoring connectivity to Cogent this afternoon, Level 3 has now issued a press release (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/68244) explaining their side of the story

Re: [WISPA] Cogent - Level3 Current News

2005-10-07 Thread Matt Liotta
I hope everyone takes this opportunity to become multi-homed if you are not already. In our case, we were already multi-homed, but all of our IPs were allocated by Cogent simply because it was the cheapest place to get them. During this mesh we learn that our IPs were in some cases being null

Re: [WISPA] Cogent - Level3 Current News

2005-10-07 Thread Bo Hamilton
Here in ohio we got nailed by this. Verizon, SBC, Time Warner, just to name a few. I think Im going to get a backup DSL through Sprint since they were not affected by this here in ohio. Bo Matt Liotta wrote: I hope everyone takes this opportunity to become multi-homed if you are not

Re: [WISPA] Cogent - Level3 Current News

2005-10-07 Thread Matt Liotta
With all that being said, Cogent's routes pretty much suck in comparison to the other tier-1s. Being multi-homed certainly gives you a better performing network. Additionally, you might look into peering at an exchange. We are connected to the Atlanta Internet Exchange allowing us to peer with

Re: [WISPA] Cogent - Level3 Current News

2005-10-07 Thread Tom DeReggi
Level3 did it to themselves, Cogent customers didn't have the option to hear Level 3's side of the story because LEVEL3 blocked us access from reading their side, like idiots. They instead could have did port redirection to pass our traffic to their web site our something. Regardless of what