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In the referenced message, Roeland Meyer said: <snip> > My latest quote for a new DSL connection is 42 days. T1s are 6-8 weeks. > Bigger pipes are 2-6 months for the fastest response, many cases are longer. > > Back to business failures, the DSL world is looking rocky at best. Rythms > isn't looking very solid and neither is Covad. Some of the NorthPoint > customers are not going with either, electing to go with the local RBOC > instead (despite the hassles and long lead-times). What many businesses > really need is true multi-homing. <snip> So, if people picked better providers, they wouldn't need to multihome. You feel you need to multihome, because you keep picking DSL, which just isn't a good choce for "mission critical applications".
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