I can say that every time I've contact Sprint the response has been very
fast and satisfactory. I've had to make many follow-up calls to get things
done with UUNET. I guess you can relax a little when you're the top dog?
I'm glad Cisco TAC doesn't feel that way.
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Jason Roysdon, CCNP+Security/CCDP, MCSE, CNA, Network+, A+
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> I agree with Jason, it's going to be the "luck of the draw" as far as the
> competency of the Engineering staff that you will have assigned to work
with
> you. We're turned up Internet connections with AT&T, Sprint and Internap.
> We were lucky and all three were pretty good as far as the BGP
> configurations went. However, the latency and subsequent response time
for
> our E-commerce users in different parts of the country varied widely
between
> the three with AT&T being by far the worst. IMHO, you can work through
most
> of the initial configuration and setup issues but support and response
time
> is something you will live with for a long time. Consider these factors
as
> well.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason J. Roysdon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 10:06 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: What ISP do you recommend for BGP?? [7:1295]
>
>
> It's all going to depend on the luck of the draw as to the engineer you
get,
> I think, at least to some degree (same is true of Cisco TAC, and they're
the
> top as far as support goes, IMHO). Mind you I've only turned up two BGP
> connections, but Sprint was totally on the ball and great to work with.
> WorldCom/UUNET was incompetent and I had to walk him through a number for
> things like getting a default route advertised from them, what
customer-only
> routes mean, etc. (lucky for me I did them after Sprint). Check
Boardwatch
> for ISP costs and latency comparisons. WorldCom is directly connected to
> nearly 50% of prefixes advertised. I believe Sprint has like 30%.
>
> http://www.boardwatch.com/
>
> --
> Jason Roysdon, CCNP+Security/CCDP, MCSE, CNA, Network+, A+
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>
>
> ""BH"" wrote in message
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> > Hi,
> > Does anyone have a recommendation or horror story for best ISP to work
> with
> > for implementing BGP?
> > I am thinking of picking between Worldcom, ATT and Qwest.
> > Thanks
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