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Ok, we have an opportunity to get Qwest bandwidth amazingly cheap. I can't disclose the details (NDA), but bottom line is it looks like the cheapest in the industry and because there is no loop involved, it could be one hell of a deal on a ds3. I'm not a fan of Qwest, traditionally. I've had some (somewhat famous) run-ins with their sales people, and I personally know plenty of companies who over several years have had tons of complaints with various aspects of their organization. However, I'm not interested in all of that at the moment. I need to evaulate, without all of my longheld bias, whether or not Qwest can provide quality DS3 transit. The traditional knock on Qwest is that they're an over-built under-peered network with poor support. But a lot of time has passed, so surely they would have addressed the peering issues by now? I can deal with poor support...the circuit is a simple cross connect, and our bgp filter changes are fairly uncommon. Can anybody speak positively or negatively about the quality of Qwest transit? We ordered a metered ds3 for a backup circuit, but with the pricing I'm seeing, I'm really tempted to localpref and prepend our announcements such that most of the traffic flows through Qwest. I plan on trying it out regardless, but I'd like to hear from the list first. Thanks, Andy xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Andy Dills 301-682-9972 Xecunet, LLC www.xecu.net xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Dialup * Webhosting * E-Commerce * High-Speed Access
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