[Cialug] OT: Need plummer - internet pipes congested

[Dave Weis]

Claus wrote:
> Dave Weis wrote:
>> It's tough in Ames because the Qwest and Mediacom facilities are so 
>> full. If you are in east Ames served by the downtown Qwest office, I 
>> would say OpenCom would be the way to go. I've got some circuits in west 
>> Ames that are working fine though and provide the full 7 megs down and 1 
>> meg up that they should. It depends a lot on where the problem is.
> 
>  From what I can tell the problem lies with Qwest's copper/CO from 5pm 
> to midnight or so.  I'm amazed that others in west Ames get 7 megs in 
> the evening.

Some of their network configuration is 'interesting'. I've seen a full 
rack of DSLAM's with a single DS-3 (45 megabits) for the uplink. 
Considering there are a couple hundred ports in a DSLAM and 3 or 4 of 
them in a rack, it's not going to be pleasant with a bunch of heavy users.

>> OTOH, if you get a hundred friends to all sign up I'll consider putting 
>> some ridiculous speed up there :-)
> 
> I'm not popular enough to have that many friends.  Maybe I need to join 
> face book. ;) Be sure to drop me a note if you get up here.

Haha, will do!

dave



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