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Re: reverse DNS questions
From: Mia''s Virtual Post Office
Date: Friday, September 5, 2003
Time: 4:33:53 pm
On Friday, September 5, 2003, at 12:45 AM, Jeff Justice wrote:
> We had two T1's through a company called Nuvox Communications/Gabriel
> Communications. We paid thousands of dollars a month for them. They
> were down at random for no apparent reason and with no warning most
> times. About half the time, their routers would be the cause of the
> problem. The other half of the time they would take the service down
> for what they called "maintenance". No warning.
>
> After spending a year and a half of being told the service didn't work
> because of something on my end (like I can't do a trace route and tell
> the trace is stopping at one of THEIR routers), and being told that
> maintenance that would bring the line down was a normal thing, we
> ditched them.
>
> Now, I would say we probably just had a crappy experience with a
> sub-rate provider. But after a year and a half of countless service
> interruptions, countless hours on the phone to their data center, I'm
> leary of paying that kind of money for a T1 again. Especially since
> cable has been 100 times more reliable than my T1 experience.
I would say you are exactly correct, you just had a c crappy experience
with a lousy provider. So compared to that, sure cable looks a lot
better :-) Overall, again, this is not indicative of DS1 or higher.
From both a telco and an ISP standpoint, DS1 or higher is treated,
normally with a great deal of care and immediate response. We had
PSI/Cogent in the past so I can attest to what it is like having a
horrible provider.
>
> I don't pay 50 bucks a month for RoadRunner commercial. It's
> considerably higher than that, and only slightly less expensive per
> month than a T1 (Yes, standard commercial service is cheap, but if you
> want static IP's and the same speed up as down, it jumps drastically).
> It has served our needs admirably, with the exception of the reverse
> DNS, which as I said, hasn't been an issue as of yet. It has been
> down once in the last 2 years for 24 hours one time, due to a
> technician who didn't pay attention to which cable line he was
> disconnecting at the tap. Got a $600 credit for that little fiasco.
>
Like I said before on the SOHO end of things Cable can be just fine.
Would I use it for a business? Sure, but it depends on what I was
doing. Would I use it for my ISP? No. But again, there are
compromises to make. So if you can live without inverse DNS, and the
price point/reliability is where you like it, what more could you ask.
> I suppose at some point, if having business class cable does create
> issues, we'll give a T1 a try again, and I'll probably be soliciting
> some advice on this list as to potential "good" providers, so as,
> hopefully, to not repeat our first mistake with Nuvox/Gabriel.
Well let me know if you ever do as I would be more than glad to help
point you the direction of reasonably priced reliable providers of DS1
or higher.
>
> We are certainly not big enough to be talking about anything higher
> than a T1 at this point. Anyway, just my experience with biz-class
> cable service.
>
Understood.. Like I said, if it works for you, fine.
Regards,
Jeremy Anthony Kinsey
e-mail: jer@mia.net
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