Nathan,

I was just moved from the Los Angeles POP (LAX) to the Denver POP (DEN). I 
fought with Speakeasy for nearly a week regarding the ramifications a move 
would have on my first-hop latency and thus overall performance. After 
explaining the basic principles of physics and sharing my prior experiences 
with them they finally (probably out of frustration) told me that I had no 
choice because the Los Angeles POP was being decommissioned. Needless to 
say my first-hop latency went from 25 ms (LAX) to 140 ms (DEN)! I'm not 
pleased at all.

Assuming you're located in AZ, I would push back. Being homed to the Denver 
POP is bad enough, I fail to see how homing your DSL circuit to a POP 1510 
miles away (Seattle) fit within the 'local'. Having been homed in the 
Seattle POP before, I don't think you'll like it.

jas

At 07:30 AM 8/17/01 +0000, Nathan England wrote:

>To anyone else who is using speakeasy
>
>Have you recieved an email saying your pop is changing?
>I got an email saying they were changing my pop from Denver Colorado to
>Seattle Washington, because I am 'local' to Seattle...
>
>This has me curious because I am not 'local' to Seattle. I am much
>closer to Denver.
>
>Am I totally missunderstanding something?  Or is speakeasy about to
>screw up my account?
>
>Any others I'd appreciate your thoughts.