How would you rate the following networks for transport and IP services:
Level3, Qwest, AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon
Please put them in order from you number one choice (best choice) to your number five choice (worst choice) if possible.
I would like to hear some input from users that have had experience with Qwest and Sprint's network. How do they compare to the other tier one providers? I know some networks depend on location, so I would like to hear from people that have used them in Texas if possible.
View 0 Replies View RelatedI find it very interesting that the major ISPs in and around Portland Oregon apparently do not peer with anyone in the region. For low latency you're better off choosing a provider in Seattle or San Jose as traffic always seems to be routed there and back anyways.
Why is this? Is it simply not worth their effort to setup the peering connections because most traffic will be hosted outside the region anyways?
my linksys switch comes with a web control panel under "qos" where i can control bandwidth there is Ingress Rate Limit and Egress Shaping Rate, what are they?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI just switched to Qwest DSL for internet access and I have one problem. I cannot access any sites hosted by ServerWizards on all 5 pcs in my house. Even people who comes to my house with their laptop cannot access my sites hosted with SW. Qwest technical support can't help.
This problem occured three times so far this month
1st time I assigned a dedicated IP on all pcs to make it work
2nd time I contacted Qwest support and rebooted the modem to make it work
3rd time I contacted support again and tried everything but does not work
I have no Firewall other than Windows forewall. No virus to think of. Reboot
troubleshoot this or explain what the problem might be.
One of the datacenters I was looking at mentioned they have Yipes and Verizon.
If you have to choose between these two who would you pick? and why?
Does anyone have a good sales representative that is direct with either of these two companies? This would be for the Texas market if that matters.
View 4 Replies View RelatedCan anyone give me a rough estimate of what I should be expected to pay for the following bandwidth commitments from Verizon:
45Mbps (DS3)
100Mbps (FE)
155Mbps (OC3)
1Gbps (Gig-E)
This location would be a Verizon central office. Anyone know of a good Verizon sales representative or reseller?
If one was interested in becoming a CLEC and hosting their own gear inside a central office, how do they find out what providers are available and on-net in central offices? Is there any database to look at?
I asked my Verizon sales representative and she stated that she couldn't tell me what customers were in their CO for privacy reasons. That is understandable, but how do I find out who is in a CO and who I can cross connect with? You are not forced to buy internet access only from the ILEC (Verizon) are you?
Does anyone know anything about the Qwest colocation center in Chicago? It is the 7th floor in the same building Equinix is in. I am looking for positive or negative feedback as I'm looking at potentially placing a couple of cabinets in there.
View 6 Replies View RelatedCan anyone comment on how their experience has been with the Qwest network in the Texas region? It seems by looking at their network map that they have many directly links to other cities coming out of Houston which is a surprise to me as everything seems to come from Dallas on other networks.
Can anyone comment on pricing? What can you get a FE or GE commit from Qwest for?
I am looking at getting some Qwest bandwidth at 200 Paul, San Francisco. Not being too familar with Qwest's network and as part of evaluating that decision I did some testing to see how the routes/latency looked from various points on the Internet and from our other data centers. For pretty much all the testing I did from the major tier 1/2 networks, Qwest has great peering in places you would expect resulting is decent routes and low latency.
The strange thing is that the one exception is routes from Level 3. As an example, traffic from various Northern California points on Level 3's network to a test IP on Qwest's network in Sunnyvale all go via Denver to connect to Qwest and then back to the Bay Area. For LA originating traffic, it goves via Dallas. Same thing for Seattle that is going via Denver.
Hard to imagine these two tier 1 providers don't peer at any location on the west coast at all? Is this typical between these two or is there some temporary outage right now? Or is there some peering spat going on between them?
Seems pretty silly for traffic to go 3,000 miles between points that are only 10 miles apart!
Here is an example of the route to a test IP sunnyvale.speedtest.qwest.net (205.171.214.185):
1 vlan89.csw3.SanJose1.Level3.net (4.68.18.190) 0 msec
vlan79.csw2.SanJose1.Level3.net (4.68.18.126) 0 msec
vlan99.csw4.SanJose1.Level3.net (4.68.18.254) 0 msec
2 ae-62-62.ebr2.SanJose1.Level3.net (4.69.134.209) 216 msec
ae-82-82.ebr2.SanJose1.Level3.net (4.69.134.217) 4 msec
ae-72-72.ebr2.SanJose1.Level3.net (4.69.134.213) 204 msec
3 ae-3.ebr1.Denver1.Level3.net (4.69.132.58) 204 msec 200 msec 204 msec
4 ae-11-51.car1.Denver1.Level3.net (4.68.107.6) 224 msec
ae-11-55.car1.Denver1.Level3.net (4.68.107.134) 212 msec *
5 dvr-brdr-01.inet.qwest.net (63.146.26.133) [AS209 {ASN-QWEST}] 24 msec 28 msec 28 msec
6 dvr-core-01.inet.qwest.net (205.171.10.54) [AS209 {ASN-QWEST}] 24 msec 24 msec 28 msec
7 * * *
8 svl-svcs-01.inet.qwest.net (205.171.214.98) [AS209 {ASN-QWEST}] 28 msec 28 msec 28 msec
9 svl-speedtest-01.inet.qwest.net (205.171.214.185) [AS209 {ASN-QWEST}] 28 msec 28 msec 28 msec
Anyone have experiences with using Qwest bandwidth in Northern California they care to share?
If I were to go about setting up a SMTP server on a verizon FIOS line, would they shut me down if I was sending out about 10,000 outgoing emails a day.
I want to set it up for a email newsletter service.
For years we have been able to send and receive through our web sites using Qwest and then a few weeks ago it stopped working for sending completely. I checked the usual things like port 25; I changed the outbound mail address to smtp.live.com per their instructions. Nothing. Now that Qwest is MSN it just doesn't work and their offshore "support" is worthless. This happens using Windows XP Pro and Vista.
View 7 Replies View RelatedAnyone here colo at a Verizon facility in the Chicago area? I need to get in contact with someone.
View 5 Replies View RelatedWhat is forking, it's taking a bite out of apache processes:
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Load was at 8 just before the fork:
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But it's a quad core and wasn't swapping
What is a reasonable rate for ram upgrades?
I'm looking to upgrade the ram in my web server and was wondering what others have paid lately for the upgrade.
Going from 2 to 4GB.
I am seeing bqbackup transference rate when I use rsync very slow as:
18.72kB/s
I think this is very slow. What rate you have?
Which brand / model would you recommend for those:
1 - bw limiting on specific port (like 3mbits/sec on port4)
2 - creating vlans by ports (like vlan1 = port1 + port2)
3 - creating vlans by ips (like vlan1 =x.x.x.1 to 8, vlan2 = x.x.x.9 to 27)
4 - managing the switch from GUI
I've been collecting quotes from various colo providers for 1 full cabinet in Virginia. I've been surprised at how much power costs these days, but I also understand power is in short supply.
One quote I got raised a question though. For a Class C (non-portable) IP address space, they want $256/month (so I guess that's $1 per IP). Their other pricing seems in line with the other quotes I have received, but no other place wants to charge for IP addresses like that. Is $256/month for a Class C considered normal market rate?
Does that reflect their costs? Are they paying a price per month upstream for IPs?
I am hosted with ASmallOrange. I have always had fast uploads but recently that have been rather slow. 1-4kbs but now up to 20kbs. I think it depends on the file type. I am not sure.
This is starting to stress me out because it takes hours to upload 8 or 9 mbs of stuff.
What is a normal upload rate? How do I know if this is a problem with my host or with my connection?
I also upgraded to the lastest version of Cyberduck but I do not have OSX. I still have OS9. Could that be a problem?
When I try uploading a file of stuff it says 2 or 3kbs but when I upload an 11mb file it says 20kbs. It is so strange. I can't find a really good way to tract it. I am just watching the upload as it flickers and shows me a rate but it doesn't always. Deleting files is fast. And downloading normal files from the internet is about 144kbs.
Getting down to deciding my barebones set up..
here is one I am teetering on..
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It has 4 hot swap bays (sas)
dual xeon thingee
sas hdd raid controller
ecc memory support
2 lans
520watt power..redundant...though I think it is a littel over 2 amps when pushed.
Although I am looking at just geting the same MOBO and building it, there is not much of a price difference that I can see..
how much per mbps is the norm, assuming we're ordering 50+?
what about non-cogent?
Thanks to rising costs of energy we have received notices from GNAX that they are raising costs of power and colo space. Has anyone else seen similar notices from other colo's already ?
I know we have seen power rates increase the last few months in our homes, we talked about that here in another thread. It was envitable that colo facilities followed suit. How does this affect the other colos and providers?
There are several big domains that frequently defer accepting mail from us causing long delays or rejections. Google, AOL, and Yahoo are examples. I'm considering trying the suggestions found in this online posting regarding rate limiting the sending of messages to those domains. In the below URL, please see the section titled "Different policies for different domains"...URL....
Would these changes be safe to make on a CentOS 6.4 server running Plesk 11.0.9 with Postfix 2.8.4? Would any special modifications for Plesk be necessary?
Just wondering what problems a listing here will cause for emails
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rejected emails to some or all other networks?
This is for a Data Center's IP ranges, they have advised the cause was 2 of their customers with 6 servers which all contained multiple IP classes on each server caused this and are saying to wait 7 days before the listings will clear.
I do not believe they will pay the express removal, not sure if they even knew about the listing until it was pointed out to them.
Details from site..
What means listed at UCEPROTECT-Level 3?
GAME OVER. We and our users have seen enough spam and heared all possible excusions why some lazy providers think to be not responsible for what their customers are doing.
We are not just another blacklist. We really know better. Massive spam is always a problem tolerated by the provider.
Your abuser / user ratio is exorbitant high. We expect some minimum standards from soneone claiming to be a professional provider.
Due to the facts that you do not reach our standards, we and many of our users have chosen to no longer allow smtp-traffic from all your IP's and ranges. See above what we are willig to tolerate as a maximum by an provider of your size.
In todays Internet it is no longer acceptable to sit down and wait for abuse to happen.
If you want to become an accepted provider with a good reputation, you will have to install preventive measures.
Click here to see what you can do to prevent spam coming from your ranges.
If you think it is not your job to prevent your IP's flooding the world with spams, we hope that you and your users will enjoy your Intranet.
How can our total ip-space be removed from UCEPROTECT-Level 3?
You can not expect to get a free ride because you are the provider. Our standard removal procedures are also valid for you.
After you have fixed the problems, the UCEPROTECT-Level 3 listing will be removed automatically and free of charge as soon as the causal Level 1 listings will expire.
Every IP listed at Level 1 expires 7 days after we have seen the last abusive action coming from it.
If you don't want your users to be affected up till the free expiration, you can optionally Expressdelist, which is charged a total of 250 EURO per ASN.
That is a huge discount compared to our charges for Level 2 or even Level 1 expressdelistings.
It is necessary that problems are fixed in first place, otherwise your complete IP-space might end up in Level 3 again within a short timeframe
Does anyone have any experience in this DC, or are there any resellers who could help me out? We have equipment all over the US, but want something close to our offices for a more robust testing environment. We're only 30 minutes from NYC, but it's a huge hassle and we already have other equipment there.
I've done searches for other DCs in the area, but they don't turn up too much. I'm open to anything in western CT or Westchester county. The only quote I've gotten so far was ridiculous.
Does Level3 charge the same price per rack at every one of their datacenters, or is it dependent on the location? For example, how much would a rack in the Houston datacenter cost compared to the Dallas datacenter? Please no sales people contact me I am just asking to do some research.
View 8 Replies View RelatedDoes Level3 have a monthly minimum of some sort? I currently own a dialup internet service provider, buy through a dialup reseller that mainly uses the Level3 managed modem service, and would like to deal with them directly if possible. I am also interested in their collocation services and ip connections in the future.
View 3 Replies View RelatedAm I the only one seeing how pathetic LEVEL3 has been lately?
My route from the Gulf Coast to ATL then to Dallas has been up and down up and down with LEVEL3's network. I swear that every time the wind blows their routers are having issues........
GNAX has a killer deal on bandwidth, a mix of L3 & nLayer. How good of a network is that?
Level3 & nLayer @ $8 Per/Mbps with no minimum commit
Cogent & Telia & PCCWBTN & nLayer @ $15 Per/Mbps with no minimum commit
How much more premium is the Cogent, Telia, PCCWBTN, & Nlayer compared to just L3 & nLayer?