[23671] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How good is the CIX's connect?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Stratton)
Mon Apr 12 19:15:01 1999
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 19:15:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: Nathan Stratton <nathan@robotics.net>
To: Matt Hempel <mhempel@infonent.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.990412120031.6639E-100000@sparky>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Matt Hempel wrote:
> I'm debating whether to buy a crossconnect to CIX's 7513 and use it for
> UUNet traffic. I tried pushing 701 through the shared FDDI and it
> crawled, but that could have been the FDDI.
Well I have a @Home connection right now in PA and everything going to 701
is via CIX. Some days it is ok, but the connection sucks most days.
> Does anybody have any good experience with routing through CIX? I noticed
> one of my transit providers is using it for UUNet. Does anybody know
> UUNet's connection to the router and how saturated it already is?
I did a few years ago to get to sprint, but to answer your question, yes,
UUNets connection is saturated.
> --matt hempel
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