I had verio and moved to uunet 3 yrs ago. UUnet was a seperate division within Worldcom and from a technical standpoint not really affected by the bankruptcy (IMO).
In the 3yrs with uunet I have only had 3 outages on the uunet circuit and in those times it was not a localized problem but the major regional/national issues uunet experienced. OTOH the 3 years with verio was a total screwup I constantly had problems from actual circuit issues to total human failures. I would never do business with them again and have no issues with black holing their ips due to spam. The more pain I can inflict on them the better. And to boot uunet was about 60% cheaper. As far as the circuits you need to determine where the issues are occurring at. DSL is really just a cheap form of a T1 circuit. (IE with out SLA's) Start monitoring each leg of the total path to determine where the problem is at. And fix from there. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "RMilner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 12:34 AM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Way OT: Leased Lines and Internet connection problems. > On the same line, who do you feel is (are) the best T1 provider(s) out there > in term of speed and reliability. I have to get rid of a Verio t1 before it > drives me up a wall. Is UUNet still as good as it was prior to the > bankruptcy? > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Tolmachoff > (Lists) > Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 7:26 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [IMail Forum] Way OT: Leased Lines and Internet connection > problems. > > > As there are a number of ISPs on here, I have a question. > > I have a client whose servers are in Toronto. > > One of those servers is used for a mission critical program. (Not e-mail.) > > Aprox 35% of the work done is through Terminal Server from users in Los > Angeles and aprox 35% is done through Terminal Server from users in Chicago. > (Users connecting to the Terminal Server in Toronto.) The remaining is done > by local users in Toronto. > > With all of the recent problems on the Internet, there are times when Los > Angeles and Chicago can not access Toronto. This brings work to a slow > crawl. > > Currently, all locations on are business DSL. (VPN between locations.) The > ISP in Toronto is Bell Canada. > > The question is, if Toronto (and possibly Los Angeles) was on a T-1 line, > would the connection have a greater up-time and guaranteed connection? In > other words, if Toronto was on a T-1 line, would they have experienced the > slow downs and time outs that they have experienced the last month with the > DSL line? (Fortune telling aside.) > > Or is a leased line between Toronto and Los Angeles better, but at what > cost? > > Please respond off-list. > > John Tolmachoff MCSE CSSA > Engineer/Consultant > eServices For You > www.eservicesforyou.com > > > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
