[36684] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Qwest (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Germann)
Fri Apr 13 22:50:02 2001
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Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 22:42:06 -0400
To: "Martin, Christian" <cmartin@gnilink.net>
From: Eric Germann <ekgermann@cctec.com>
Cc: "'Richard A. Steenbergen'" <ras@e-gerbil.net>, nanog@merit.edu
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At 08:51 PM 4/13/01 -0400, Martin, Christian wrote:
>> purchase connectivity from them, even if their network didn't suck.
>
>What makes you think this? Perhaps you can share your experiences that
>would substantiate this claim. I have rarely seen cross country RTTs exceed
>70 msec (right now it's 58msec from nyc to sfo) and don't recall the last
>outage they've sustained on an edge router, let alone core disruption. I
wdc-edge-03.inet.qwest.net
Last friday night for about 4 or 5 hours. Flapping T-1's. Traced to bad line card. I know. I hung off of it.
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