From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Jan 10 5:25:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from cliff.i-plus.net (cliff.i-plus.net [209.100.20.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C77615953 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 05:20:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from st@i-plus.net) Received: from phat (was.dashit.net [209.100.22.251]) by cliff.i-plus.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA77344; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 08:20:47 -0500 (EST) From: "Troy Settle" To: Cc: Subject: RE: Offtopic: National Carriers Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 08:19:52 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3612.1700 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <3879C9D9.576691B7@premier-networks.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Paul, I'd reccomend using 2 or 3 different wholesalers. Megapop and Ziplink are both good places to start. You might want to check with PSI, GTE, and UUNET. I think Sprint has a wholesale solution as well. G'luck, Troy > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of > paul@premier-networks.com > Sent: Monday, January 10, 2000 7:00 AM > To: Bill Vermillion > Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Offtopic: National Carriers > > > That's what I've found with AGIS so far as well.... they only want to do > the bundled solution.... C&W doesn't seem to cover a lot of POP's in > their solution.... > > We're still deciding between Ziplink and Megapop for now.... we only > have a very small amount of possible users in the immediate time frame > so Ziplink's minimum of $100/month versus Megapop's minimum $500/month > looks more attractive. However Megapop has more POP's and covers some > Canadian cities as well which is attractive to our needs...:) > > Paul > > > Bill Vermillion wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 07:51:34PM -0500, Thus Spake > > paul@premier-networks.com: > > > > > I haven't discarded anyone yet.. these are the only two we've > > > looked at so far..:) > > > > > Hoping someone on this list already uses one of them and could > > > share their thoughts... > > > > Some people I'm doing some consulting for are looking at Agis for > > the major market solution - one login from anywhere in the country > > - and minimum number of ports. > > > > Once the city count gets to a decent level then the Level 3 > > solution looks pretty good. > > > > I also saw a pitch by Cable and Wireless - but it was more aimed at > > making someone a virtual ISP. They did all the work and even > > produced a custom logoed CD so it looked it was your company. > > > > THere appear to many alternative ways to approach things > > > > Bill > > -- > > Bill Vermillion bv @ wjv.com > > > > 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