Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 15:43:43 -0400 (EDT) From: john <zaph0d@sweb.com> To: Mitch Vincent <mitch@venux.net> Cc: Cliff Addy <fbsdlist@federation.addy.com>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sprint vs Quest Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990901153907.47218F-100000@abatis.sweb.com> In-Reply-To: <000601bef4ac$0d79f040$40ee2fd8@inky.venux.net>
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This isn't exactly proprietary information, but i've seen people paying as much as 1500 to 2000 a month for a 128kilobit connection. I have gotten quotes from Sprint for T1's that were over 3000 a month (!). Thats *excluding* loop charges from local telco. The cheapest Sprint T1 i've seen was for like 1750.. again, excluding local loop charges. I am sure that varies with the sales person, but the vast majority of connections i've seen from Sprint are very pricey, in the T1 or below range anyways. For ds3's and oc12's, it's gonna be pricey regardless. I guess once you're in the 100000+ range, 10 more grand doesn't really matter that much. But I can say from personal experience, their network monitoring center was pretty up on things usually. There were countless times we knew about and were working on an outage way before customers even knew about it. On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Mitch Vincent wrote: > It has been my experience that Sprint isn't expensive, they are and have > always been the lowest priced upstream around me. I've found that depending > on area, they can beat other's prices by as much as %50 (Regardless, they've > *always* been lower than everyone else.). > > *shrug* that might just be them giving me a better deal than everyone else, > but I seriously doubt I'm that special :-) > > -Mitch > > "When all your plans fail, backup, re-group and press on. The only real > failure is quitting..." > > -----Original Message----- > From: john <zaph0d@sweb.com> > To: Cliff Addy <fbsdlist@federation.addy.com> > Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> > Date: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 2:52 PM > Subject: Re: Sprint vs Quest > > > >We use Qwest where i'm at, and I worked for Sprint for about a year in the > >ISC. Sprint is expensive, but with most people the service is good (theres > >always someone who has persistant troubles, for some reason). At this > >point, I have a hard time saying much good about Qwest, except a bunch of > >people that used to work with me work there now. :) > > > > > > > > > > > >On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Cliff Addy wrote: > > > >> We've become thoroughly disgusted with Digex as our T1 provider since > they > >> were bought by Intermedia. We've narrowed down their replacement as > >> either Sprint or Quest. Anyone have any experiences they'd like to > share? > >> > >> Cliff > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > >> > > > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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