OT: was Facial Hair... now New Speeds available

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Jul 17, 2006, John Esak wrote:
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>> I just hope the transition works out for you, really.  And smoothly!
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>Me too. don't see how it could be a problem... we will keep the T1 for
>awhile until the optical pans out okay.  The 1400/mo is from a 1200 service,
>600 for isp, 600 for local loop... and negotiated almost 3 years ago now,
>maybe more. Then add 200 because we opted for managed care, and that has
>been the best thing we ever did. 1 minute response time and it is all on
>them to fix things quickly.  Is it worth 1400/mo... no, but on the whole it
>has been really good not to worry about the main T1... sor of a real hassle
>when it goes down, which it has for like 8 hours at a time, 3 times...

Our full T1 from Global Crossings is about 1/2 that, and I'm negotiating
that down after a major outage recently.

The only outages we'va had on our T1s over the years have been failurs in
the local loop and QWest has been known to have crews working all night to
get them back up, but don't expect anything from them if it fails on a
weekend.  We were down for over 29 hours recently when the T1 went down on
Saturday, and one of the excuses I got from QWest was that (a) it was dark
outside, (b) one of the techs was a woman, and (b) it was a ``safety''
thing which their union plays as a trump card.

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>P.S. - Oops, almost forgot.  It is Verizon offering the new full blown
>Optical service.... and that is what I will move the T1 to.  The local cable
>company is, however, also offering the 30Mb service and so I will put it in
>place of a spare DSL line we have in the place. At least Rick and I can fool
>around for a while testing and getting a feel for what the huge bandwidth is
>like.

I would be *VERY* worried about anything that Verizon touches,

I think it was Verizon that even blocks port 22 (ssh) access on their
residential accounts in addition to the normal blocks on incoming port 25,
80, etc. since the residential accounts aren't supposed to be running
servers.

FWIW, I've found AOL blocking e-mail from QWest static single IP addresses
as residential dialups, but don't block QWest's assigned static IP blocks
of addresses.  QWest will provide a single static IP address to their DSL
router which then does NAT for everything behind it.  If one needs to run
IPSec VPNs, a block of IP addresses is necessary with at least two usable
addresses, one for their router, and one for whatever is used to handle the
IPSec tunnels.

Around here Verizon is what used to be GTE (Great Telephone Experiment),
and people located their businesses so that they would be in areas serviced
by QWest to avoid the lousy service in the GTE areas.

Bill
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