Re: single homed public-peer bandwidth ... pricing survey ?

2007-03-07 Thread Andy Davidson
On 6 Mar 2007, at 21:51, Jason Arnaute wrote: But, I am charged between $150 and $180 per megabit/s for non- redundant, single-homed bandwidth (not sure which provider they put it on) and even if I commit to 20 or 30 megabits/s it still only drops down to $100 - $120 per megabit/s. [...]

RE: single homed public-peer bandwidth ... pricing survey ?

2007-03-06 Thread Joseph Jackson
> > On Mar 6, 2007, at 4:51 PM, Jason Arnaute wrote: > > > I am currently hosted in a small, independent > > datacenter that has 4 or 5 public peers (L3, Sprint, > > UUnet, AT&T and ... ?) > > Those are not public peers, those are transit providers. > I think he is confusing his terms.

Re: single homed public-peer bandwidth ... pricing survey ?

2007-03-06 Thread Matthew Crocker
Hello, I am currently hosted in a small, independent datacenter that has 4 or 5 public peers (L3, Sprint, UUnet, AT&T and ... ?) They are most likely giving you a single feed to their core which has 4-5 upstream connections to transit providers. Not peers really, Im sure they are pay

Re: single homed public-peer bandwidth ... pricing survey ?

2007-03-06 Thread John Osmon
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 01:51:39PM -0800, Jason Arnaute wrote: [...] > Or am I just getting ripped off ? I have actually seen contracts that have current pricing over $200/Mbps -- but the person responsible isn't allowed to "negotiate" on transit prices anymore. :-) (To be fair, at the time

Re: single homed public-peer bandwidth ... pricing survey ?

2007-03-06 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Jason Arnaute wrote: Yes, that's what I am saying - one pipe only, and if it goes down, I go down. Ok, so it sounds like they're doing MPLS or some sort of policy routing to force your traffic out one of their transit providers. I've seen other providers do this. Is th

Re: single homed public-peer bandwidth ... pricing survey ?

2007-03-06 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Mar 6, 2007, at 6:00 PM, Jason Arnaute wrote: --- Patrick Giagnocavo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jason Arnaute wrote: I am currently hosted in a small, independent datacenter that has 4 or 5 public peers (L3, Sprint, UUnet, AT&T and ... ?) They are a very nice facility, very technical

Re: single homed public-peer bandwidth ... pricing survey ?

2007-03-06 Thread Joseph S D Yao
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 01:51:39PM -0800, Jason Arnaute wrote: > > Hello, > > I am currently hosted in a small, independent > datacenter that has 4 or 5 public peers (L3, Sprint, > UUnet, AT&T and ... ?) > > They are a very nice facility, very technical and > professional, and have real peopl

Re: single homed public-peer bandwidth ... pricing survey ?

2007-03-06 Thread Jason Arnaute
--- Patrick Giagnocavo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jason Arnaute wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am currently hosted in a small, independent > > datacenter that has 4 or 5 public peers (L3, > Sprint, > > UUnet, AT&T and ... ?) > > > > They are a very nice facility, very technical and > > professi

Re: single homed public-peer bandwidth ... pricing survey ?

2007-03-06 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Mar 6, 2007, at 4:51 PM, Jason Arnaute wrote: I am currently hosted in a small, independent datacenter that has 4 or 5 public peers (L3, Sprint, UUnet, AT&T and ... ?) Those are not public peers, those are transit providers. They are a very nice facility, very technical and profession