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DSLTech
join:2000-12-30
San Jose, CA
| reply to vferrari3
Re: Take a step back
I know for sure Level 3's customers were complaining. Can you imagine what a handfull of unhappy ISPs complaining might do to convince Level 3 to make a change?
Who was complaining? Oh, perhaps ISPs like Earthlink, Speakeasy, Megapath, etc. who all have connections via Level 3 to the internet, as well as other forms of peering. Dont you think that their complaints weigh heavily on Level 3?
Earthlink could, for example, choose to use Wiltel instead of Level 3 as a primary internet access connection, so their displeasure is very, very important to Level 3.
Fortunately our ISP is dual-homed to the internet, Level 3 being only one of the 2 options. | |
PGHammer
join:2003-06-09
Accokeek, MD
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| Except for dial-up providers, and this would typicaly not apply to the larger such providers, *any* ISP, if at all possible, would multi-home (via, at worst, two second-tier bandwidth providers). I know of NO national dial-up ISPs (including Earthlink) that use single-peering. Apparently, for whatever reason, the expiration of Cogent's peering agreement with Level 3 would have seriously inconvenienced a major subset of customers (either Cogent's OR Level 3's) else the dispute would not be taking place. | |
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