From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Apr 10 17:09:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA12779 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 17:09:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mixcom.mixcom.com (mixcom.mixcom.com [198.137.186.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA12772 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 17:09:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mixcom.mixcom.com (8.6.12/2.2) id TAA22597; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 19:10:30 -0500 Received: from p75.mixcom.com(198.137.186.25) by mixcom.mixcom.com via smap (V1.3) id sma022530; Fri Apr 11 00:10:06 1997 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970410190305.00cab3a4@mixcom.com> X-Sender: sysop@mixcom.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 19:03:06 -0500 To: Chris Bura From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: Sprint or MCI ?? Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 10:07 AM 4/10/97 -0700, Chris Bura wrote: >We're trying to decide between Sprint or MCI for our T1 service. >They both have the good sales pitches. > > Sprint says they're all IP and MCI mixes frame with IP. > MCI says they have 40% of the internet traffic. Not suprizing with the pipes they have. >As far as marketing goes, I think MCI is more dominant. > >This is a huge binding decision so we'd really like to do it right. > >Anybody have any non-biased information for us? I'd say MCI, but their bureaucracy can get tedious. If you do go with MCI, make sure that have a paper contract. MCI was very reliable for the year that we had a T1 with excellent response times to just about anywhere. ------------------------------------------- Jeff Mountin - System/Network Administrator jeff@mixcom.net MIX Communications Serving the Internet since 1990