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As someone who lives in the UK, and purchases bandwidth all over the world I say this: That's your fucking job, what do you want, a medal? Seriously, the leve
by KaiserPro 12y ago
As someone who lives in the UK, and purchases bandwidth all over the world I say this:
That's your fucking job, what do you want, a medal?
Seriously, the level of crap that verizon, Level 3 and AT&T put out is immense. I was trying to get a 100meg line in downtown redwood city. (this was q4 2013) at first I was told that the exchange was full. After that they said I could have bonded T3. After much screaming and shouting they decided that they would do me a favour and provision a fibre line.(bear in mind this was part of a large global account, with MPLS and other such niceties)
In the end it took 3 months of epic hassle (this was without way leave) just to get to the point of connection. after another 6 weeks of pointless meandering, I had fibre.
However because of the level of skill at the NOX it was another 3 fucking weeks to get it lit properly. (15% packet loss is not acceptable by the way)
The worst part of this is the cost, $4500 a month for a steaming pile of shite, backed by people to thick to open doors effectively.
In london this is how it went down:
Phone up $provider, I want a 1 gig line please.
$provider: sure, that might be up to 90 days, pending legals and survey
Me: ok
$provider: (week later) survey is done, line should be lit in a month
$provider: oh and thats £1500 a month
In conclusion, just fuck right off, get off your arse and fucking do what we all pay you for, provide some fucking bandwidth.
- feld 12y agoIf they're provisioning fiber lines and not documenting loss, doing OTDR, etc they're doing it wrong. It should not have gone live and handed to the customer without passing a fucking smell test. edit: my past experience with CenturyLink was always great -- they provided us with extremely detailed documents of the provisioned line with loss, bandwidth tests, etc.