Re: ratios

["Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve () opaltelecom co uk>]

On Thu, 9 May 2002, Michael Painter wrote:

> > > All of that changed when C&W depeered from PSI.  I lost a lot of money
> due to Mr. Jansen's fascism.
>
> Understand now?<<
>
>
> I apologize in advance, I'm a total newbie...so what did you have to do?

Build resilience into his single homed, single point of failure
non-redundant network.

Steve


> --Michael
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dean S Moran" <dmoran () supernetpower com>
> To: <nanog () merit edu>
> Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 12:42 PM
> Subject: RE: ratios
>
>
> > Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
> > > Your quality of life is affected by being turned down for peering how?
> >
> > Who said I was turned down for peering?  When I buy a pipe from an internet
> > provider, I buy it under the assumption that I'm going to be able to see
> > the entire internet from it.  I know that probably any given moment, that
> > some small part of the internet is going to be inaccesible due to outages
> > or routing loops, but I do not expect to lose a path to another provider
> > for days because my upstream decides to bully the competition.  I depended
> > on, and had customers who depended on, being able to reach AS174, and for
> > years this "just worked" so there was no need to multihome.  Short outages,
> > or even overnight outages never hurt us, so single-homing was the way to
> > go.  All of that changed when C&W depeered from PSI.  I lost a lot of money
> > due to Mr. Jansen's fascism.
> >
> > Understand now?
> >
> > Dean 
> >
> >
> > > Steve
> >
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