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DSL upgrade not as good as it seems

  • Oct 22nd, 2005
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  • Networking, minirant
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    • For a while I had the regular qwest service of 1.5Mbit down, 976(?)kbit up. This made me pretty happy, I’d never had something as close to symmetric as that, at least not since 28.8 modems.
    Then they started having a deal on their “up to 5Mbit” service for $29.99/month for a year. I went […]

    Massive Level(3) outage

  • Oct 21st, 2005
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  • Networking
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    • Just weeks after they depeered cogent, Level(3) has had what appears to be a complete outage of their network.
    Things do go wrong with maintenances, but this was kind of the mother of all outages, at least as far as a single SFI (settlement free interconnect) provider is concerned (SFI is a more accurate title than […]