On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 07:49:48PM -0400, Steven J. Sobol wrote:
MSN uses at least two dialup wholesale outfits. Earthlink uses their own modem banks in California, IIRC, and probably also in Atlanta since they bought Mindspring, and outsources to at least two other companies in other cities.
Post-merger Earthlink uses a combination of outsourced modems and large aggregation POPs for dense regions, depending (obviously) on the financial layout for any given area. This isn't NDA info; any customer can generally find out whether they're dialing into one of the super-POPs or an outsource by looking at their own reverse, and/or asking support where the number leads to. -- *************************************************************************** Joel Baker System Administrator - lightbearer.com lucifer@lightbearer.com http://www.lightbearer.com/~lucifer