RE: 60 Hudson

["Todd A. Blank" <todd.blank () ipoutlet com>]

Correct me if I am wrong, but the FiberNet to which you are referring in
60 Hudson is a different "FiberNet" than the one that was headquartered
in Columbus, OH and recently sold to Cogent.  As far as I know, they
(the FiberNet in Columbus) are not out of business, unless selling to or
being taken over by Cogent is synonymous with "going out of business"
:-)

This is not in defense or support of either of these organizations.  It
is merely a clarification of the facts.  Maybe Drew is trying a new
variation on the "Joe Job" thing :-)

Sincerely,

Todd A. Blank
IPOutlet LLC


-----Original Message-----
From: Drew Weaver [mailto:drew.weaver () thenap com] 
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 12:57 PM
To: 'Jeffrey Meltzer'
Cc: 'nanog () merit edu'
Subject: RE: 60 Hudson


This might explain why fiber net went out of business and sold to
cogent?? 

-Drew


-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffrey Meltzer [mailto:jeffrey () villageworld com] 
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 10:32 AM
To: nanog () merit edu
Subject: Re: 60 Hudson


Quick followup, apparently the current issue i'm having with them is a
"bad
oc48 card" (again, shocker), and they don't have one in stock, and had
to
put a "rush order" in for a new one...You'd think a carrier would keep
this
sort of thing in stock.  Went down late yesterday afternoon, and with
this
being Friday, i'm sure this won't be fixed until late Monday.

Use this as an indicator before choosing FiberNet :)

Jeff

--
Jeffrey Meltzer
Network Services Manager
ICS/VillageNet
631.218.0700

On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 09:42:22AM -0400, Jeffrey Meltzer wrote:
> As someone who uses FiberNet in 60 Hudson (and ethernet link back to
25
> Broadway) i'd say avoid them like the plague.  In the ~6 months that
i've
> had this circuit (aparently it's provisioned over an OC48), it's gone
down
> at least 4 times, possibly more, sometimes for upwards of 12 hours at
a
time
> (starts at 10% packet loss, then just keeps growing).  Their answer
every
> times has been "bad OC48 card".  I don't know whether that's just the
line
> they're feeding me (I have a feeling it is), or their hardware vendor
is
> just garbage, but they don't appear to have the ability to keep this
circuit
> up for more than 3 weeks at a time.  
>
> At one point they sold us on upgrading it from Ethernet to FastE, we
said
ok 
> maybe that will be better.  However, they took down the 10M link at
around
9pm 
> on a Friday night, and by 7pm Sunday night they hadn't had the 100M
link
up 
> yet so we just told them to forget it...
>
> Since the circuit is just backup, i've been testing FiberNet as fo
late.
> Yesterday, after I started seeing packet loss I waited at least 2
hours to
> call them, to see if they'd notice the issue themselves.  Of course as
usual
> they didn't.  
>
> I'm fairly sure i'm the only customer they are providing this
> service to between 25B and 60H, otherwise for sure they'd know by know
> (unless they are dedicating a full OC48 to my 10M link, which would be
a
> whole other story itself).
>
> I'm unsure, however, if this is how they provision service inside
(suite
to
> suite) 60 Hudson, it'd be fairly strange if they did, but FiberNet is
> turning out to be a fairly strange company.
>
> ..just my experience :)
>
> JEFF
>
> --
> Jeffrey Meltzer
> Network Services Manager
> ICS/VillageNet
> 631-218-0700
>
> On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Simon Lockhart wrote:
>
> > Speaking to Level3, they're saying that the Fibernet suite on the
1st
floor
> > is the best place for interconnects to other suites in the building.