One teensy weenie suggestion. Dont go with Erols. They suck. Every other
week the cut a cable or they lose a host or something. DIE EROLS DIE!!!!
Fun-Bob@...
*Sighs*
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From:
chlebek@... <
chlebek@...>
To:
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Date: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 1:31 PM
Subject: Re: [eqbards] Twisting and connections
>From: chlebek@...
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>> So if it really is time for a new ISP any suggestions out there?
>> Who is good, since mine is obviously far worse than I thought.
>
>I would suggest AT&T Worldnet as a good choice. I used to use Earthlink,
but
>they go the whole way thru UUnet and with the troubles that UUnet seems to
still
>have occasionally I would suggest staying away from any ISP that leases
their
>bandwidth from UUnet.
>
>AT&T Worldnet goes thru a combination of AT&T's own lines and Cerfnet. If
you
>are on one of the servers that is on the Cerfnet backbone (as I am) this is
a
>great way to go. Ping times are in the 175 to 240 range and I almost always
have
>0 0 packet loss. And did you ever notice that when UUnet was having fits
that
>there were still a couple hundred people on the servers? THEY weren't going
thru
>UUnet. :-)
>
>If you call the various ISP's in your area you might be able to give the
the
>address of your server and ask them to do a traceroute to see what
backbone(s)
>it goes thru. Dunno how receptive they'd be buy you could try.
>
>Just my humble opinions,
>Taelin
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