CenturyLink/Level3 feedback

Stephen Frost sfrost at snowman.net
Fri Jul 5 19:25:18 UTC 2019


Greetings,

This looks to be former Qwest, from what I've been able to tell.  IPs we
were assigned were out of AS209.

Thanks,

Stephen

* Mike Bolitho (mikebolitho at gmail.com) wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, what network are they bringing you up on?
> 
> - Mike Bolitho
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jul 5, 2019 at 12:11 PM Stephen Frost <sfrost at snowman.net> wrote:
> 
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I have to admit that I was hoping to be able to report to this list that
> > CL was able to spin up a new 1G in fairly short order (after all, this
> > is what they assured me of when discussing it with them...) but it's now
> > been over a month, with them telling me it'll be another couple weeks
> > because they need to send a tech out (the wiring and all of the
> > equipment has been ready to go, though that also took longer than it
> > should have imv...).
> >
> > And this in an already lit building in northern Virginia, not some back
> > of the woods location, small town, or something going across an ocean.
> >
> > Pretty disappointing.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > * Mike Hammett (nanog at ics-il.net) wrote:
> > > Anything more than a week for things not requiring last mile
> > construction is ridiculous.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -----
> > > Mike Hammett
> > > Intelligent Computing Solutions
> > >
> > > Midwest Internet Exchange
> > >
> > > The Brothers WISP
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > >
> > > From: "JASON BOTHE via NANOG" <nanog at nanog.org>
> > > To: "Mehmet Akcin" <mehmet at akcin.net>
> > > Cc: "nanog" <nanog at nanog.org>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, June 5, 2019 9:56:14 AM
> > > Subject: Re: CenturyLink/Level3 feedback
> > >
> > > It’s taking over a year to get waves turned up in EU. I’m currently
> > willing to wager on what comes up first, them or amazon peering (that’s
> > taking just as long). After the merger, we have seen Level3 slide into the
> > CL abyss becoming a pain to deal with. Pricing and ordering has been
> > outsourced we’ve been told and decisions are no longer at a regional level.
> > Frustrating at best.
> > >
> > > > On Jun 4, 2019, at 09:30, Mehmet Akcin <mehmet at akcin.net> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > hi there,
> > > >
> > > > Just a general high-level question about Centurylink/Level3
> > post-merger, how is your overall experience with CenturyLink? if you could
> > be sitting with the CEO of the company what is one thing you would ask him
> > to fix?
> > > >
> > > > please keep it high level and general. i intend to pass these to him
> > and his team in an upcoming meeting.
> > > >
> > > > Mehmet
> > >
> > >
> >
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