I suppose it could be worse...this was a customer that we know from Honduras:
http://www.bayislandsvoice.com/issue-v5-2.htm At least Level3 didn't come in with guns... Jeff -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of George Rogato Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 12:06 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] anyone see this? See now that is the issue around here. If we want true redundancy we need to ride two different fibers out of town. One is the fiber we are already on, and the other is the expensive guys Qwest. We hate to give Qwest a dime. Matt Liotta wrote: > Sure it is more costly than being single-homed, but being multi-homed > is pretty important. If your single provider goes down what do you > tell your customers? > > -Matt > > John Scrivner wrote: >> Maybe it is very costly to do? Charter Pipeline service in my market >> is not multi-homed either. Neither am I at this point. I used to be >> multi-homed in the days when 2 T1s did the job. It is not easy to >> swing redundant fiber runs in a town that is 75 miles from the >> nearest telco-hotel. When I get multi-homed fibers here then I will >> probably do that through a mini-telco-hotel facility here and make >> that place a new business opportunity in itself. >> Scriv >> >> >> Matt Liotta wrote: >> >>> It does make you wonder why the ISP in question wasn't multi-homed. >>> >>> -Matt >>> >>> Tim Wolfe wrote: >>> >>>> Thank The good Lord above that I never signed the TelCove contract >>>> for bandwidth last year!. I mean, you really have no idea what the >>>> local provider was doing wrong, but to turn off a school district >>>> and fire CO on that system, COME ON!. You can bet the lawsuits from >>>> the school district alone will make Level 3 think twice about doing >>>> this again?. If you have an offending server, the stupid thing has >>>> an IP address, Block it!. I would hope that Level 3 has enough >>>> smarts to do this?. Even a little guy like me knows how to block an >>>> offending IP address, and I am stupid, LOL! >>>> >>>> >>>> Matt Liotta wrote: >>>> >>>>> http://gigaom.com/2007/03/14/why-did-level-3-turn-off-a-rural-isp/ >>>> >>>> >>> > -- George Rogato Welcome to WISPA www.wispa.org http://signup.wispa.org/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
