Just think of the MediaOne fiasco last year.  They were down all the time
and they received all the heat - but most often it was MRNet that was the
problem.  They ran the dial-up for the one-way modems and they supplied the
bandwidth.  MRNet's Sprint link from here to Chicago was almost ALWAYS
saturated.  I am sure that relationship cost the local MediaOne group lots
of money.  They have a "in your face" reputation with competing backbone
providers.

Tom Veldhouse
veldy at veldy.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nate Sanders" <nate at nerp.net>
To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 10:28 AM
Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Onvoy, Oh how you have fallen....


> Onvoy... MRnet... god don't get me started on them... I had a Colo at
Honeycomb down
> in Minneapolis for over a year. MRNet was their upstream. MRNet would go
down for 2
> hours atleast twice if not three times a month.
>
> Now, my DSL is with Onvoy.... They STILL go down 2-3 times a month for
15mins-2hours
> for no reason. It's hard to do much else in a 1yr contract and only being
able to
> get idsl, my options were limited. blech....
>
>
> Nate Carlson wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Bob Tanner wrote:
> > > I have been hearing rumblings from many people and companies about the
poor
> > > service from Onvoy. Connectivity, co-lo, hosting, etc...
> > >
> > > I have to admit, I have a soft spot for Onvoy, because in the old
days, MrNet
> > > rocked. But after each acquistion, service got worse.
> > >
> > > Anyway, I took down our MrNet link to see WHEN I would get a response
from them
> > > that my link was down. 48 hours and still nothing.
> > >
> > > In the old days, it was around 15 minutes.
> > >
> > > Ahh, let the slashback, or TCLUGback begin.
> >
> > I remember when GoFast used to be like that, too.. now, it takes them
> > DAYS... :)
> >
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