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FiberNet != FNSI. On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Drew Weaver wrote: > > This might explain why fiber net went out of business and sold to cogent?? > > -Drew > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeffrey Meltzer [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 10:32 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: 60 Hudson > > > Quick followup, apparently the current issue i'm having with them is a "bad > oc48 card" (again, shocker), and they don't have one in stock, and had to > put a "rush order" in for a new one...You'd think a carrier would keep this > sort of thing in stock. Went down late yesterday afternoon, and with this > being Friday, i'm sure this won't be fixed until late Monday. > > Use this as an indicator before choosing FiberNet :) > > Jeff > > -- > Jeffrey Meltzer > Network Services Manager > ICS/VillageNet > 631.218.0700 > > On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 09:42:22AM -0400, Jeffrey Meltzer wrote: > > > > As someone who uses FiberNet in 60 Hudson (and ethernet link back to 25 > > Broadway) i'd say avoid them like the plague. In the ~6 months that i've > > had this circuit (aparently it's provisioned over an OC48), it's gone down > > at least 4 times, possibly more, sometimes for upwards of 12 hours at a > time > > (starts at 10% packet loss, then just keeps growing). Their answer every > > times has been "bad OC48 card". I don't know whether that's just the line > > they're feeding me (I have a feeling it is), or their hardware vendor is > > just garbage, but they don't appear to have the ability to keep this > circuit > > up for more than 3 weeks at a time. > > > > At one point they sold us on upgrading it from Ethernet to FastE, we said > ok > > maybe that will be better. However, they took down the 10M link at around > 9pm > > on a Friday night, and by 7pm Sunday night they hadn't had the 100M link > up > > yet so we just told them to forget it... > > > > Since the circuit is just backup, i've been testing FiberNet as fo late. > > Yesterday, after I started seeing packet loss I waited at least 2 hours to > > call them, to see if they'd notice the issue themselves. Of course as > usual > > they didn't. > > > > I'm fairly sure i'm the only customer they are providing this > > service to between 25B and 60H, otherwise for sure they'd know by know > > (unless they are dedicating a full OC48 to my 10M link, which would be a > > whole other story itself). > > > > I'm unsure, however, if this is how they provision service inside (suite > to > > suite) 60 Hudson, it'd be fairly strange if they did, but FiberNet is > > turning out to be a fairly strange company. > > > > ..just my experience :) > > > > JEFF > > > > -- > > Jeffrey Meltzer > > Network Services Manager > > ICS/VillageNet > > 631-218-0700 > > > > On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Simon Lockhart wrote: > > > > > Speaking to Level3, they're saying that the Fibernet suite on the 1st > floor > > > is the best place for interconnects to other suites in the building. > -- Alex Rubenstein, AR97, K2AHR, [email protected], latency, Al Reuben -- -- Net Access Corporation, 800-NET-ME-36, http://www.nac.net --
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