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Changing ISP?
From: John Kaftan <jkaftan () UTICA EDU>
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 10:16:03 -0400
We recently had an extended outage on our MCI (VerizonBusiness) connection. We were down for 2 days and customer support was very poor during this time. Now we are faced with a decision as well as building redundancy into our connection. Here are my questions: 1. Should we leave MCI and suffer the pain of changing ISPs and receiving a new set of Public IPs? 2. Can anyone else relate their recent experiences with MCI positive or negative? 3. Also, is it sufficient to use a single ISP for redundancy if they give us separate local loops, via separate ILECs, into opposite ends of the campus, to separate COs? 4. Can anyone speak to setting up redundancy with separate ISPs and BGP? We have not talked about cost with any ISPs but I imagine it would be much more affordable using a single ISP. We are planning owning our next set of IP addresses. I'm told there might be a chance that we could keep our current set. We'll see. John Kaftan Utica College
Current thread:
- Changing ISP? John Kaftan (Oct 04)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Changing ISP? Winders, Timothy A (Oct 04)
- Re: Changing ISP? Joe St Sauver (Oct 04)
- Re: Changing ISP? Graham Toal (Oct 04)
- Re: Changing ISP? Valdis Kletnieks (Oct 04)
- Re: Changing ISP? Samuel Young (Oct 04)
- Re: Changing ISP? John Kaftan (Oct 04)
- Re: Changing ISP? David Gillett (Oct 04)
- Re: Changing ISP? Graham Toal (Oct 04)
- Re: Changing ISP? Valdis Kletnieks (Oct 04)
- Re: Changing ISP? Samuel Young (Oct 04)
(Thread continues...)