RE: Qwest (fwd)

[Eric Germann <ekgermann () cctec com>]

At 08:51 PM 4/13/01 -0400, Martin, Christian wrote:


> > purchase connectivity from them, even if their network didn't suck.
>
> What makes you think this?  Perhaps you can share your experiences that
> would substantiate this claim.  I have rarely seen cross country RTTs exceed
> 70 msec (right now it's 58msec from nyc to sfo) and don't recall the last
> outage they've sustained on an edge router, let alone core disruption.  I

wdc-edge-03.inet.qwest.net

Last friday night for about 4 or 5 hours.  Flapping T-1's.  Traced to bad line card.  I know.  I hung off of it.



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