[23706] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How good is the CIX's connect?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sanjay Dani)
Thu Apr 15 04:50:56 1999
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 01:49:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: Sanjay Dani <sanjay@professionals.com>
Reply-To: Sanjay Dani <sanjay@professionals.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> > 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.
I don't understand why @home can't get a private peering to UUnet.
Both UUnet and @home got a dedicated port on the CIX router (good)
but essentially are using most of that for traffic to each other.
We stopped using CIX to UUnet a while ago due to flaky performance.
Sanjay.