Re: Level 3 - "legacy" Wiltel/Looking Glass bandwidth

2009-07-07 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, Justin Shore wrote: Every time we tried to take this position we got the same old line of "we've got everything in the path configured correctly; you'll get the full 200Mbps" to which I'd reply with a reminder that we got the same assurance when we turned up the 100Mbps with

Re: Level 3 - "legacy" Wiltel/Looking Glass bandwidth

2009-07-07 Thread Justin Shore
Scott Howard wrote: We're looking at getting connectivity via Level 3 in a particular datacenter, but we're being told that it's "legacy Wiltel/Looking Glass" rather than "true" Level 3. Given that both of these acquisitions occurred years ago should I be worried, or is this "legacy" connectivit

Re: Level 3 - "legacy" Wiltel/Looking Glass bandwidth

2009-07-04 Thread up
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, Scott Howard wrote: We're looking at getting connectivity via Level 3 in a particular datacenter, but we're being told that it's "legacy Wiltel/Looking Glass" rather than "true" Level 3. Given that both of these acquisitions occurred years ago should I be worried, or is this

Re: Level 3 - "legacy" Wiltel/Looking Glass bandwidth

2009-07-02 Thread Eric Nowland, Wyoming.com
Will Orton wrote: We have an old Wiltel DS3 homed from their Anaheim POP... all traffic that's not going to destinations on the old 7911 backbone seems to be backhauled to Level3 in San Jose before getting anywhere else, like so: 1 (internal) 2 (internal) 3 (internal) 4 anhmca1wcx1-a

Re: Level 3 - "legacy" Wiltel/Looking Glass bandwidth

2009-07-02 Thread Will Orton
We have an old Wiltel DS3 homed from their Anaheim POP... all traffic that's not going to destinations on the old 7911 backbone seems to be backhauled to Level3 in San Jose before getting anywhere else, like so: 1 (internal) 2 (internal) 3 (internal) 4 anhmca1wcx1-atm10-0-0.wcg.net (64.2

Re: Level 3 - "legacy" Wiltel/Looking Glass bandwidth

2009-07-02 Thread Alex Thurlow
We were a former Wiltel customer that was bought out by Level 3. Wiltel service had been great, and then as soon as level 3 took over, things went downhill. We had GigE service, and wanted another line, but Level 3 said they didn't want to sell any more ports on Wiltel gear. We also had seri

RE: Level 3 - "legacy" Wiltel/Looking Glass bandwidth

2009-07-02 Thread David Hubbard
From: nanog@nanog.org > > We're not very happy with Level3 anymore either, terrible support, no > RFO is ever given, tickets are closed with no explanation at > all. They > bought so many providers close together that they have a lot > of work to > do to integrate everything into a workable

Re: Level 3 - "legacy" Wiltel/Looking Glass bandwidth

2009-07-02 Thread Jason LeBlanc
We're not very happy with Level3 anymore either, terrible support, no RFO is ever given, tickets are closed with no explanation at all. They bought so many providers close together that they have a lot of work to do to integrate everything into a workable set of products. George Carey wrote:

Re: Level 3 - "legacy" Wiltel/Looking Glass bandwidth

2009-07-02 Thread George Carey
As a Level 3 customer who had connectivity to some legacy Wiltel equipment I can also attest that service levels were pretty bad following that merger. We had a few memorable outages where escalations were necessary to get things resolved and folks familiar with the equipment were hard to find.

Re: Level 3 - "legacy" Wiltel/Looking Glass bandwidth

2009-07-02 Thread david raistrick
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, Scott Howard wrote: We're looking at getting connectivity via Level 3 in a particular datacenter, but we're being told that it's "legacy Wiltel/Looking Glass" rather than "true" Level 3. Given that both of these acquisitions occurred years ago should I be worried, or is this