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RE: 60 Hudson
From: "Jeffrey Meltzer" <jeffrey () villageworld com>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 21:51:06 -0400
Correct, this FiberNet is www.ftgx.com If anyone was curious on how the story continued, this OC48 card that they need is still, aparently, 10 days away from being delivered by Nortel. The only thing I can figure at this point is that FiberNet is on credit hold with Nortel or something. In 8 years of selling & RMA'ing hardware, I've never heard of anything this mission critical taking 10 days, it's always overnight. Either that, or FiberNet can't afford a new one, and is waiting for one to pop up on ebay :) Go Go Gadget FiberNet! If anyone needs anything in NYC, go with KeySpan Communications, they keep spares in stock and my stuff with them hasn't gone down once in 4 years (knock wood). :) JEFF -- Jeffrey Meltzer ICS/VillageWorld 631-218-0700
-----Original Message----- From: Alex Rubenstein [mailto:alex () nac net] Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 12:50 PM To: Drew Weaver Cc: 'Jeffrey Meltzer'; 'nanog () merit edu' FiberNet != FNSI. On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Drew Weaver wrote:This might explain why fiber net went out of business andsold to cogent??-Drew -----Original Message----- From: Jeffrey Meltzer [mailto:jeffrey () villageworld com] Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 10:32 AM To: nanog () merit edu Subject: Re: 60 Hudson Quick followup, apparently the current issue i'm havingwith them is a"bad oc48 card" (again, shocker), and they don't have one instock, and hadto put a "rush order" in for a new one...You'd think acarrier wouldkeep this sort of thing in stock. Went down late yesterdayafternoon,and with this being Friday, i'm sure this won't be fixeduntil late Monday.Use this as an indicator before choosing FiberNet :) Jeff -- Jeffrey Meltzer Network Services Manager ICS/VillageNet 631.218.0700 On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 09:42:22AM -0400, Jeffrey Meltzer wrote:As someone who uses FiberNet in 60 Hudson (and ethernetlink back to25 Broadway) i'd say avoid them like the plague. In the ~6months thati've had this circuit (aparently it's provisioned over an OC48), it's gone down at least 4 times, possibly more, sometimes for upwards of 12 hours at atime(starts at 10% packet loss, then just keeps growing).Their answerevery times has been "bad OC48 card". I don't knowwhether that'sjust the line they're feeding me (I have a feeling itis), or theirhardware vendor is just garbage, but they don't appear tohave theability to keep thiscircuitup for more than 3 weeks at a time. At one point they sold us on upgrading it from Ethernetto FastE, wesaidokmaybe that will be better. However, they took down the10M link ataround9pmon a Friday night, and by 7pm Sunday night they hadn'thad the 100Mlinkupyet so we just told them to forget it... Since the circuit is just backup, i've been testingFiberNet as fo late.Yesterday, after I started seeing packet loss I waited at least 2 hours to call them, to see if they'd notice the issuethemselves.Of course asusualthey didn't. I'm fairly sure i'm the only customer they are providing this service to between 25B and 60H, otherwise for sure they'd know by know (unless they are dedicating a full OC48 to my 10Mlink, whichwould be a whole other story itself). I'm unsure, however, if this is how they provision service inside (suitetosuite) 60 Hudson, it'd be fairly strange if they did, butFiberNetis turning out to be a fairly strange company. ..just my experience :) JEFF -- Jeffrey Meltzer Network Services Manager ICS/VillageNet 631-218-0700 On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Simon Lockhart wrote:Speaking to Level3, they're saying that the Fibernetsuite on the1stflooris the best place for interconnects to other suites inthe building.-- Alex Rubenstein, AR97, K2AHR, alex () nac net, latency, Al Reuben -- -- Net Access Corporation, 800-NET-ME-36, http://www.nac.net --
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