> > No offense intended, but why would a client that can afford a mid to high
> > end Cisco buy connectivity from texas.net rather than UUNet/Sprint/MCI?
>
> two reasons... Here in texas we are in the middle of nowhere. I
> personally have no "connection" to texas.net, but am using insync.net
> (Houston) for my bandwidth... big advantages are price and performance..
Actually they are based in Victoria. They have a pop in Houston that feeds
other ISP's namely the HAL-PC.ORG users group, the largest NPO computer
group in the country.
> My competition has a fairly fast MCI connection, state of the art access
> hardware, and their customers still complain about sorry speeds, because
> basically have to go around the world twice before getting to anywhere
> except MCI... Still I'm only five hops from them, and less than 10 hops
> from most of the decently connected united states (lets not bring up edu
> networks, though)...
I'm kinda miffed about this. I use MCI, and if a customer of mine wants to
telnet or connect to a site in Houston, but they are on Sprintlink, as in
the case of Insync. It goes all the way to San Francisco and back! What
the hell are these MAE switches for!
One ISP in Houston is very well connected. They have links to multiple
backbones. Traceroute phoenix.net from anywhere and its rarely over 10
hops.
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Houston, Texas http://www.ams.com/~jake
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