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On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 07:31:24AM -0400, Stephen Griffin wrote: > In the referenced message, Gary E. Miller said: > > On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Stephen Griffin wrote: > > > 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". > > > > PSI could be next. They are not DSL. If I still had a PSInet connection > > I would sure want it multihomed. > > I don't see how this changes anything. DSL is a subset of the "not good" > variety, not the complete set. If I had "mission critical applications" > I would probably include companies that are likely to file for Chapter 7 > or Chapter 11 in the "not good" variety. umm, perhaps you might have a better term than just "DSL". it's pretty common to supply DS1 circuits over HDSL lines now-a-days. so, one of our T1's looks identical (even to the bumbling ILEC "technicians") to two $40/month residential DSL lines. up to the DSLAM and beyond, i would assume... -- Henry Yen Aegis Information Systems, Inc. Senior Systems Programmer Hicksville, New York
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