[112251] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: comcast price check
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Blake Pfankuch)
Sat Feb 21 15:32:50 2009
From: Blake Pfankuch <bpfankuch@cpgreeley.com>
To: ChrisSerafin <chris@chrisserafin.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 13:32:37 -0700
In-Reply-To: <49A05A0E.4070501@chrisserafin.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Ok lets clarify. Comcast recently started offering Ethernet (read fiber de=
livery) circuits. Anyone know about stability and pricing on these. Pleas=
e exclude all the commentary on any Comcast services that are "cable" based=
.
-----Original Message-----
From: ChrisSerafin [mailto:chris@chrisserafin.com]
Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 12:46 PM
To: Blake Pfankuch
Cc: Brielle Bruns; NANOG list
Subject: Re: comcast price check
I have a client that has a number of business AT&T DSL and Comcast
cable circuits for small remote VPN sites.....AT&T is great, rarely
goes down....
Their Comcast circuits ALWAYS go down and are problems upstream per Comcast=
.
I 'm not sure how much they cost thought, sorry.
Chris Serafin
Blake Pfankuch wrote:
> Back to the original topic on price. I am interested in this as well as =
we are looking for a failover network and had actually talked with Comcast.=
They were doing the work to see how far they had to trench.
>
> Does anyone out there actually use their Ethernet services? How stable a=
re they? Good pricing?
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brielle Bruns [mailto:bruns@2mbit.com]
> Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 8:42 AM
> To: NANOG list
> Subject: Re: comcast price check
>
> On 2/20/09 11:36 PM, Andrew Prowant wrote:
>
>> Yes, Comcast started providing transit late last year. A couple hosting
>> providers have connectivity to them here in Chicago. FDCServers.net has
>> 30Gbps or 40Gbps to them.
>>
>>
>
>
> *raises an eyebrow*
>
> FDCservers.net eh? That's always reassuring.
>
> Given my past experiences with them, I'm not sure I'd want to use them
> as a 'great example'.
>
>
> --
> Brielle Bruns
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