Apr 3, 2002 | Q
Just as a preemptive warning: I just discovered that my ISP, who provides the T1 that serves this site and a bunch of others, is in Chapter 11. I am investigating the details of the situation, including what would be involved in moving the T1 elsewhere; I’ll keep y’all informed.
(I just did a little bit of searching, and it turns out that this has been going on for a few months now. I need to stay better-informed of what’s going on with my ISP!)
So what can we do to help?
• Posted by: neale on Apr 3, 2002, 5:35 PMI dunno, right now; I have some reassurances from my account rep that everything’s OK for now, but of course she’d say that.
I have a very sweet deal with this ISP, so moving would involve some increase in cost; there’d also be the cost of moving the distant end of the local loop to the new provider.
Right now, I’m thinking that I may want to add some additional backup mail and DNS servers for my domains, off of this ISP’s network… so that’s somewhere to start.
• Posted by: Jason Levine on Apr 3, 2002, 6:36 PMAs a fellow New Yorker I can recommend the ISP I have had for years, Panix. Their prices are not the cheapest (although they are currently having a special offer on T1s, saw it in my MOTD. I don’t know market rates for a T1 so I can’t tell you how good/bad it is) They are an honest, friendly and more importantly a technically savvy bunch. Heck they even admit to outages that I didn’t even know happened.
I don’t get a kick back(I assume) I’m just a happy customer
• Posted by: Paul on Apr 4, 2002, 12:06 AMPaul’s right. Panix is a first class company. I’ve been a customer for years.
Good luck.
• Posted by: James Spahr on Apr 4, 2002, 12:15 AMThe tough thing is that I’m currently beating the T1 prices that Panix offers by a lot more than you would guess; in addition, the page quotes rates for a geographic area that excludes where I live.
Maybe it’s worth a call to ‘em, if need be.
• Posted by: Jason Levine on Apr 4, 2002, 12:21 AM