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Andy, Qwest is handing out "bargain" deals like hotcakes these days... But before you get lured in ask yourself.. are you willing to buy from other non tier-1 providers? It isn't hard to find pipe under 50/meg these days if you stroke your local sales monkey properly. Also, look around at other folks like Sprint.. they are right in line with Q-mess pricing and offer quite a bit more for it. And finally, you have to wonder how long Q-tip can offer LD and circuit switched pricing at a loss before dragging the rest of the company down with it. Lets face it, the packet side of the house was always a bit shabby and it seems that all they have done is let it age..... IMHO, you can find better price, better service and better quality in other places. -- Shawn Solomon Senior State Networks Engineer Indiana Telecommunications Network & IHETS INDnet 317.263.8875 www.ind.net fx: 317.263.8831 On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Andy Dills wrote: > > > 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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