Speakeasy

[Nathan England]

John,

I just spoke with a rep from Speakeasy and he said it does seem strange
that I would be moved to the Seattle pop, but the deal was because there
is no local pop in Arizona, they shuffle us out.  He said the Denver pop
was never intended to used for mainstream, but instead was designed for
the locals of denver, whereas the Seattle pop uses a main backbone and
should greatly improve my throughput because the denver pop is vey
backlogged.

Now take your grain of salt and read this as you will.  I guess it makes
sense if that's the truth, though it seems wierd..  But he did say a
Phoenix POP is in the works!  So that will be good.

I know it's a pain in the ass to chagne everything, but I'd call them
and say you want to be on the Seattle POP instead of Denver..
But wait on this till after Tuesday when they switch me and I'll tell
you if I notice a difference.  Right now everything is fast forme.  But
I was never on the LAX so I wouldn't know if it's slower.  But I'll be
sure and let you know what happens.  It's scheduled for Tuesday at 1400,
which means I'll have to pause my plug messages for a few hours..

Take care.


On 17 Aug 2001 09:20:41 -0700, John Starta wrote:
> 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.
> 
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