I switch customers from them all the time because of quality issues. Just thinking of a cheap emergency backup.
Sent from my iPhone On Aug 26, 2010, at 5:04 PM, Bret Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > On 08/26/2010 05:59 PM, David E. Smith wrote: >> >> >> >> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 16:55, Jeremie Chism <[email protected]> wrote: >> Comcast has just rolled out their 50/10 and 100/20 service here. At 189.99 >> for 50/10 I was seriously considering ordering one as a backup connection if >> my main connection failed. Talked to the sales manager and they had no >> problem with it and would put it on the contract. Any suggestions or has >> anyone else had a dealing with this type connection as a backup. >> >> Wouldn't you have to get them to run BGP over this connection, so you can >> keep things online? I suppose this would work if you were really desperate, >> and willing to basically NAT your whole network, but you wouldn't want to do >> that for more than a couple hours while the real links are repaired. >> >> David Smith >> MVN.net >> > > And I don't believe Comcast offers BGP not to mention you mileage will vary > with the quality of the link. Tends to be great when you're the first one on > it, but as they start overselling their backbone quality drops > dramatically...we've had quite few customers come back to us for this exact > reason. I suppose in a pinch it would be better then nothing. > > Bret > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
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