Well my former employer had been a Sihope customer since 1996...I rarely experienced slowdowns. In fact I think I always got at least my CIR when I was downloading something. Of course we were a T-1 customer so slowdowns are a little more noticable, but I know Sihope never did any rate-shaping to prefer 1 customer's traffic over another's. Now with my DSL the biggest battle has been with the physical line. Since I upgraded to 2.3.5 I get disconnected all the time and my line quality is fluctuating between 19 and 22. I thought your contract with Onvoy prohibited you from turning up another connection to an ISP...or did you mean they owned the local loop for the frame so you couldn't order an additional PVC on it? So is Real Time speaking BGP and carrying full routes now? Sprint and Onvoy are announcing your IP's? Adam Maloney Systems Administrator Sihope Communications On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Nate Carlson wrote: > On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Adam Maloney wrote: > > I've never seen any problems. Sihope's always used USR's TC chassis for > > analog dial-ups, and our upstream connection usually sits at 75% > > utilization or less. My ping times over DSL are generally 30ms from > > my router to my router, which is about as good as you can expect over DSL. > > This was about a year ago, maybe things have improved since then.. on the > old dial-ups, I was lucky to get downloads of 3k/s on a 49k connect.. > where with other ISP's, I was able to get 4-5k/s all the time. Of course, > I stuck with Sihope because they would route me a /28 over a dialup.. :) > > > Plus we don't have the problems inherant with being a customer of a > > certain provider that doesn't know how to properly speak BGP to it's peers > > since it fired most of it's technical staff after they merged...again. > > Hmm... mr.net, you mean? :) That's why we've got a Sprint T1 now.. funny > thing, ~90% of our traffic goes out that connection.. you would think > mr.net would be the better route since they are multihomed better, but > nope.. > > -- > Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 > http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org