Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on ISPs' refusal to upgrade networks | Ars Technica

Thu Mar 20 21:21:49 UTC 2014

+1

Is this what happens when a vendor gets too big?

-Petter

-----Original Message-----
From: Bryan Socha [mailto:bryan at digitalocean.com] 
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 9:35 AM
To: mark.tinka at seacom.mu
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Subject: Re: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on ISPs' refusal to upgrade networks | Ars Technica

I don't know where everyones traffic goes but level3 and us, nothing.
We've dropped all but 1 line which will be gone in 60 days.    I don't care
what their excuse is, they have been horrible this last 14 months and I'd rather get bw from cogent who isn't great but doesn't blame everyone else for their inability to peer better...

A premium cost provider should have premium service and level3 is no longer that.

Bryan Socha
Network Engineer
DigitalOcean
646-450-0472

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.mu> wrote:

> On Thursday, March 20, 2014 04:18:59 PM Patrick W. Gilmore
> wrote:
>
> > "The market" can only "work around" things if there is a functioning 
> > market. Monopolies are not a functioning market.
>
> When did we ever have a "functioning market", even in markets that are 
> considered "liberalized" :-)?
>
> It is what it is - it's just less bad in some places than others.
>
> > There will be a solution - in fact, there is today.
> > Doesn't mean it is optimal. In fact, in the presence of a monopoly, 
> > it is pretty much guaranteed to be sub-optimal.
>
> Aye.
>
> Mark.
>