Yes, I know we could have done that, but this client makes a lot of noise when anything resembling a hiccup occurs, and we weren't going to take that chance. ATT gets to deal with them when the DS3 has problems.... :-)
On another note, they have been quite happy with their Covad Wireless Internet connection at $599 per month for 3 Meg Burstable to 6 meg. It has been down 2 times in the past year. Covad had a couple of nasty outages in the past month or so. John Travis Johnson wrote: > You are missing an opportunity there... > > Tell them you will provide them a 300Mbps full duplex link for $3,000 > per month. Then go buy a Trango licensed link for $11k and make $3k a > month profit after 4 months. :) > > Travis > Microserv > > John Thomas wrote: >> Are you saying that it is not practical for you to get a T-1 so that you >> can legitimately run BGP and multi home? >> You can set BGP so that 99% of the traffic goes over the bigger pipe if >> necessary. >> >> I am curious where people are getting DS3's at $1500 per month? We have >> a client that has a point to point DS3 for 2 buildings that are 2 blocks >> apart and they pay $2000 for each end, and that *does not* include >> Internet access, only point to point. >> >> John >> >> Richey wrote: >> >>> /rant on >>> >>> Dealing with Arin is frustrating if you are a smaller provider in a market >>> where it's not cost effective to multi home. Where many people might get a >>> DS3 for as little as $1500/mo or less, some may pay $3,000+/month. For >>> those who are in more rural areas stuck paying high prices for their >>> connection to the backbone it's just not cost effective to multi home in the >>> beginning. >>> >>> If you are single homed you must use /20 (4096 IPs) before they will give >>> you an allocation. I have had problems in the past with a similar situation >>> where a network was using 12 class c and the upstream refused to allocate >>> any more IPs saying we needed to go to ARIN. ARIN would not do anything >>> until we were using a /20 so it became a chicken or the egg problem. >>> >>> The policy should be different for an ISP. If you are a small ISP >>> multi-homed or not you should be able to get a /22. It makes it hard for >>> the smaller provider to change backbone providers because their IP blocks >>> are non portable. >>> >>> /rant off >>> >>> Richey >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On >>> Behalf Of Cliff Olle >>> Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 9:02 AM >>> To: 'WISPA General List' >>> Subject: Re: [WISPA] speaking of ARIN >>> >>> I was told that I would have to have BGP and be multi-homed within 30 days >>> or they could revoke my IP's. Would they allot a /20 in the case you are >>> only using 4 class Cs? >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On >>> Behalf Of Scott Piehn >>> Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 7:29 AM >>> To: WISPA General List >>> Subject: Re: [WISPA] speaking of ARIN >>> >>> One add to the /22. You need to be or plan to be running BGP. >>> >>> >>> Scott >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "John Thomas" <jtho...@quarnet.com> >>> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> >>> Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 9:54 PM >>> Subject: Re: [WISPA] speaking of ARIN >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> If you are multihomed you need to justify a /22 ( 4 Class C's) and if >>>> you are not, then you will need to justify a /20 ( 16 class C's) >>>> >>>> John >>>> >>>> >>>> Marlon K. Schafer wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> We probably need to get our own ip addys now. 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