Most of my sesions have been live for over 150 days. I suppose I am lucky. Are you suggesting bad linecard = sucky network? chris

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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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