Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

2007-10-06 Thread James Spenceley
... a month including 25% sales tax ^^ and we are complaining about download quotas, ouch -- James

Re: Public Works Peering

2005-10-06 Thread James Spenceley
A consortium of companies using this NAP would engineer the network since most times government officials have little clue on the engineering side of things, nor would they understand it more than those already in the industry. Having read this thread, I'm going to assume most of the

Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering

2005-10-05 Thread James Spenceley
On 05/10/2005, at 8:41 PM, Todd Vierling wrote: Isn't BGP supposed to work around this sort of thing? Ok, I'll state the obvious first BGP is a routing protocol, the economics of its implementation bears no resemblance to implied or otherwise connectivity. This comes down to a

Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering

2005-10-05 Thread James Spenceley
Then start your search for a replacement provider. If every Cogent and Level3 customer did this today, this problem would be solved by the end of the week, guaranteed. I tend to think this is oversimplification. The big picture risk, cogent will be judged now by their actions, lest

Re: 209.68.1.140 (209.68.1.0 /24) blocked by bellsouth.net for SMTP

2005-09-26 Thread James Spenceley
On 26/09/2005, at 9:50 AM, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: we just don't want this operational and technical mailing list for network operations being taken over by news and general technology chatter. of please, there are far worse things this list is in danger of being taken over by.

Belarus ISP contact

2005-09-17 Thread James Spenceley
Hi, Excuse the strange post, but I'd like to contact anyone working for a Ukrainian and more importantly Belarussian ISP's, alternatively if you know of someone please email me. begin russian я хочу связываться человек работа в интернет-поставщике в Белоруссии или Украине, извините

RE: Global view increase (was:BGP route explosion)

2002-05-02 Thread James Spenceley
Around 15mins ago an additional ~5,000 routes entered the global view, sadly they appear to be hanging around. Last Tuesday had an increase of 2,000 routes. +7000 routes in a week is significant de-aggregation or leak, any ideas on where these routes are flowing ? I've not seen an increase