Right. MCI billing was a nightmare. -----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Marco Coelho Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 12:23 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] choice of upstreams
Hold that... UUNET, not MCI On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Marco Coelho <coelh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Worldcom was the worst for billing issues. MCI was the bomb before > they were assimilated. > > > > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Brad Belton <b...@belwave.com> wrote: >> AboveNET will layout the exact path your fiber feed will be for you. Just >> make sure you're secondary path is completely diverse from whatever you >> choose as your primary. >> >> My suggestion would be to go with AboveNET or Level3 as your primary and use >> Cogent as your secondary. We haven't had any billing issues with any of our >> upstream providers that wasn't easily straightened out. Maybe we've just >> been lucky or maybe we just review our agreements more closely and haven't >> allowed for any chance of discrepancies. As they say...YMMV! >> >> Best, >> >> >> Brad >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On >> Behalf Of Marco Coelho >> Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 10:01 AM >> To: WISPA General List >> Subject: Re: [WISPA] choice of upstreams >> >> Our situation is thus: We are leasing a 45 Mile1 Gig fiber link from >> Greenville TX to 2323 Bryan ST. in Dallas (carrier hotel). >> >> My primary need is quality bandwidth. This will become my preferred >> route to the world. >> Secondary requirement is a company I won't have to spend 1 year >> working to get the billing correct. >> >> I am installing a 1 Gig (800M/800M) licensed PTP link from my NOC to >> another lit building in Richardson TX for path diversity. >> The choice of carriers here will be more limited. With Abovenet being >> one of the primary choices. I do not want this connection to go to >> the same carrier as the other connection. >> >> It's really kind of funny.... I was just a few years ago (12) when >> bonded 6 T's together and thought I had all the bandwidth in the >> world! Now I'll have and additional 2G at my NOC for less than I was >> paying for the 6 Ts. >> >> Marco >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- >> ---- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> 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 Wants You! Join today! >> 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/ >> > > > > -- > Marco C. Coelho > Argon Technologies Inc. > POB 875 > Greenville, TX 75403-0875 > 903-455-5036 > -- Marco C. Coelho Argon Technologies Inc. POB 875 Greenville, TX 75403-0875 903-455-5036 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! 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 Wants You! Join today! 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/
