This is the reason that AT&T costs more and Windstream (which I have never heard of until this message) is cheap. You get what you pay for... a company with real tech support and engineers that know what they are doing and get it done, and some "other" company that doesn't. :)
Travis Microserv On 1/26/2012 8:00 PM, Roger Howard wrote: > Two months ago, we received a /21 direct allocation of IPv4 addresses from > ARIN. > > We have two geographically diverse upstream providers. One is AT&T. > The other is Windstream. > > The Windstream circuit is considerably cheaper per meg, than the AT&T > circuit. We are wanting to do away with AT&T. > > After receiving the IP allocation, we added it to our BGP configs, and > contacted AT&T and Windstream to have the block advertised out to the > Internet. AT&T got it dealt with within a few days and traffic to > those IPs started flowing in. Windstream we have been fighting with > for two+ months to get it done. > > It's costing us thousands of dollars per month, since we can't do away > with the AT&T circuit until Windstream bring traffic in via their > circuit to these IPs. > > Windstream say they are awaiting on AT&T in order to be able to > advertise them. Can anyone explain to me why this could be the case? > What does AT&T have to do with weather I can advertise an IP block via > windstream or not? > > Thanks, > Roger > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/
