From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Nov 14 14:27:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA11329 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 14:27:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA11323 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 14:27:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from intrastar.net (root@INTRASTAR.NET [206.136.25.12]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id OAA00673 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 14:27:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from fixed.intrastar.net (earthstar.net [206.136.25.130]) by intrastar.net (8.8.2/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA11382; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 15:57:55 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199611142157.PAA11382@intrastar.net> From: "Jacob Suter" To: "Veggy Vinny" , "David Greenman" Cc: , "Chad Shackley" Subject: Re: Decision in Router Purchase Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 16:22:51 -0600 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > goes on. As for the >75% packet loss on their backbone, which sites for > example were you connecting to? SprintLink is even worst after all the > Northern UC Campuses went into a SMDS cloud and out one DS3 to their > Stockton hub, we've been getting 95% packet loss after the switch from > BBNPlanet to SprintLink 2 weeks ago. Thanks for the info though. We've > been doing our research and found that MCI, Sprint, PBI/AGIS are the ones > to stay away from. My upstream is connected to mae-hou and UUNET, and I have been nothing but pleased. I hear the LA UUNET drop is oversold though. JS