We are finally back. Hmm - Level3 is one of their transit providers: BGP routing table entry for 199.5.156.0/23, version 531543 Paths: (4 available, best #1) Not advertised to any peer 3356 13953 209.244.2.230 (metric 200201) from 165.117.1.219 (165.117.1.219) Origin IGP, metric 4294967294, localpref 100, valid, internal, best Community: 2548:172 2548:344 2548:666 3706:153 3356 13953 209.0.227.37 (metric 270401) from 165.117.1.144 (165.117.1.144) Origin IGP, metric 4294967294, localpref 100, valid, internal Community: 2548:172 2548:264 2548:666 3706:154 3356 13953 165.117.69.46 (metric 340501) from 165.117.1.140 (165.117.1.140) Origin IGP, metric 4294967294, localpref 100, valid, internal Community: 2548:172 2548:267 2548:666 3706:132 3356 13953 165.117.52.198 (metric 340401) from 165.117.1.155 (165.117.1.155) Origin IGP, metric 4294967294, localpref 100, valid, internal Community: 2548:172 2548:302 2548:666 3706:161 Here is a question: How are folks here handling the environment today where you rely on your connection but you keep getting handed (sold) off from one provider to another and each one seems to be in worse financial shape? Who can one rely on for connectivity? In general and in the Detroit area? I put out a request for bids on T-1's and all the national providers were way too high, mostly because they have no local POPs. We really need to be as close to the top as possible, not because of bandwidth needs, but for reliability's sake. John On Thu, 30 May 2002, John Palmer wrote:
CAIS sold our account to NAS. They did this about 5 months back. They are
NAS has been nothing but trouble. We are (or were) a Covad reseller, first direct through Covad, then through CAIS. The first we heard our lines had been sold was when we called CAIS for support and were transfered to NAS. A week after that, our customers started getting e-mail that their accounts had been sold and they now were NAS customers. Except our CAIS explicitly stated they were NEVER to contact our customers for any reason. They appologized -- and a week later mailed out paper letters to all our customers. When our backhaul went down, it took them over 4 hours to even pick up the ticket. It was in the same queue as regular DSL lines. It's been the same with every circuit that goes down. One hour plus hold times for support, e-mail to support is answered days later. We finally have a direct rep in corporate's cell number and put all tickets in through him, but this is no way to run things. The best was they wanted me to sign a contract adendum stateing that if any bill was more than 10 days late, they would take our customers -- no mention at all of dispute resolution. I laughed at them. So, we don't place any more Covad orders, which is fine since no one wants to pay those prices anyway, and we sell Verizon DSL. Amazingly, Verizon DSL has had far fewer hassels than Covad ever did. ========================================================== Chris Candreva -- chris@westnet.com -- (914) 967-7816 WestNet Internet Services of Westchester http://www.westnet.com/