DS3 Ordering Experiences

["Joe Budion" <jjbiv () buckeye-express com>]

How's Level3?  Anyone else have any good/bad experiences with them?

Best,

joe
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Martin Hannigan" <hannigan () fugawi net>
> To: <nanog () merit edu>
> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 3:21 PM
> Subject: Re: DS3 Ordering Experiences
>
>
> > At 02:59 PM 2/22/2001 -0500, Andy Dills wrote:
> >
> >
> > > This might help some people ordering DS3s from UUnet in the future, so
> > > I'll post it here for the archives.
> > >
> > > We ordered a DS3 to UUnet last July, and after several blown FOC dates,
> we
> > > finally started passing packets last night. (And man, nothing like 2 ms
> > > latency and being able to measure downloads in MB/s.) Thank god the
> > > circuit is quality, or this would be an entirely different post.
> > >
> > > UUnet was amazingly slow: 7+ months to terminate a DS3 to Frederick,
MD,
> > > 50 miles north of their world headquarters.
> >
> >
> > [ snip ]
> >
> >
> > Remember that post I made a bit back that was supposed to be a personal
> > note regarding
> > an OC12?
> >
> > I have my OC12 with an FOC of March 15, 10 days ahead of my six weeks. I
> > also have a lot of confidence in the ability to deliver it on time.
> >
> > It took me awhile, but the part about being the squeaky wheel is very
true
> and
> > accurate. Sucks, but that's the way it is.
> >
> > Sorry for posting so much today. Ahem. Last One.
> >
> >
> > -M
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > --
> > Martin Hannigan                    hannigan () fugawi net
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