Provider Bypass

Mon Oct 1 22:46:01 UTC 2001

> Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 16:49:00 -0700
> From: Christopher Wolff <chris at bblabs.com>

> I have a customer that has a 3 meg link into my backbone
> providers network.  Unfortunately they are not getting anywhere
> near 3 megs between their 3 meg link and my 100meg direct
> connect over this backbone network. (Lucky to get 1 meg) The
> existing provider is 'reluctant to reroute traffic over a more
> optimal link for 1 customer'.  (I'll keep my venting to myself
> on this one..)

You mentioned in a follow-up message using FTP.  How "far" (both
network time and distance) are the two networks?  What are the
machines in question?

I want to rule out bandwidth*delay issues...

Eddy

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