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RE: ISP recommedation in Washington DC area

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mohamed Hirse)
Mon Nov 13 14:48:51 2000

Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 14:41:15 -0500 (EST)
From: Mohamed Hirse <madlion@justin.net>
To: Jason Jin <jason@dataprompt.com>
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the best thing to do is talk to providers like Qwest/L3/CWX and others for
redundancy. You should also consider using BGP if you are interested in
load sharing your traffic while at the same time having some level of
redundancy.  

Regards
Mohamed

On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Jason Jin wrote:

> 
> Hello, 
> 
> we are currently using UUNET as our ISP.  We're 
> looking for a separate T1 for redundency. 
> can somebody suggest some ISP's in 
> Washington D.C area, what's the issue
> I should looking to before selecting 
> one ISP over another. Any suggestion or 
> pointer to relevent resources will be much 
> appreciated. 
> 
> 
> TIA, .
> 
> Jason 
> 



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