The Admin spent his Friday night (While you were out partying) upgrading his office 10 mbps line to a 100 mbps line. They were both Ethernet handoffs coming from a media converter. So why then did I have so many fricking problems? Lets just say DON’T ever believe the ISP. rant
I backed up my configuration for my firewall, made the necessary IP changes, modified my one to one nats and switched the cable. My VPN’s came online I had some net (I could resolve IP’s but not connect on port 80). I had a cross over cable connecting the line. Long story short the cable needed to be straight through and the ISP had given us the WRONG IP information. Don’t ask me how some services worked but after requesting the next tier tech he was like – um I see the problem change your subnet mask and default gateway…. Then he was like I need to make a few changes on your router. Then he needed to restart the main router- thankfully it was after normal business hours so he hit that magic button and BAM! I was up. Long story short…
If It isn’t working and you have been on the line with a tech forever asked to be escalated!! But I can safely say 100mbps is FAST! I had movies porn DATA coming down the pipe SO fricking fast it was worth the trouble (not really) BUT transfers from my cable modem back to the office have picked up by almost 10x! The numbers are dizzying! And a 100mb line for $1000/month cant be beat!
/rant
And now for the roundup of our most popular recent post:
- Dvd to Ipod Converter
- Create nifty windows shortcuts with Tooler for common used tasks.
- Free content filtering for your home or office.
- The Admin Gets Interviewed!
- Compiz Fusion – an Intro
- Entre Card Contest!
- Whats going on behind the scenes of my computer?
- Finally A Sleek Bluetooth headset.
- How to make you digital camera WiFi Compatible.
Posted in 
Tags: 
Hmm im from India… I’ve read somewhere that u were from NY..
Now I used to work for AOL, Covad, SBC, Verizon, Sprint and AT&T before I finally stopped working as a DSL tech support. Honestly the attrition is so bad for tech support that 30% of the employees leave. Thats why you are more likely to get a new tech agent who is trying to help you out, but dosnt knw crap about the process !
Always ask for a supervisor if you get even the slightest feeling they dont knw wht they are talking about.
Who is your isp? HEre on Long island the cheapest one is Lightpath and they are like $4000 a month for metro ethernet at 100.
@Annon – I wasnt going to say unless I was asked! But it is Cogent – they bought up LOADS of smaller ISP’s with fiber and they are slowly taking over – anyone else notice this?
Sorry , I posted as anon. Anyway thanks for the reply. I am a network admin at the Huntington Public Library on LI and we have been looking for a better isp . Thanks for your reply . :)
And to think my ISP was looking to get us to add an additional T to our account doubling our bandwidth and it would have cost us more than what you got which would be 100x what we get in bandwidth.
I may have to look into Cogent and propose it. Shoot for half what you got we would probably pay the same amount…only headache is the fact that we lease a full class C.
From the amount of referrals I should be getting commish from Cognet! We have a full c class subnet as well Sloth. Those costs come from the icann not the isp.
I can say this though this 100mb is a LONG way from a T1 – it makes it seem like dial up!
Crap…I wish I knew of Cogent’s pricing a few months ago. We’re maxed out on budget this year so it is a no go, unless I can save some serious coin and reallocate it.
It would really help us as we’re doing a lot of file transfers these days of large files and to be able to push and pull at those speeds would be huge. It would make us a lot more productive as an organization.
Thanks Karl.
Slothman i am awaiting a quote from cogent thanks to karl but I read on their website that they are very picky and might refuse to even provide service.
Slothman if cogent doesnt want to provide you with service, since your on li just like me, try long island fiber or Optimum Lightpath.
Try cogent first but if they say no try those other too.
Lightpath is $2750 a month for a 10/10 conenction with 50k voice minutes (if you want to use them for your phone service)
Long island fiber quoted us at $3000 for a 10/10 connection.
So if cogent says no look into those :)
We have a 10mb ethernet handoff that was our back bone prior to the 100mb from RCN. We are paying 1250/month from last year and before that our 10mb was 1400/month from Time Warner.
Competition is good but dont get yanked into a 6 year contract!!
Karl the two conenctions from rcn and time warner were those fiber lines?
Yes everything better than a T1 we have coming in on fiber to a media converter and then to an ethernet handoff that can be plugged into a firewall, router or vpn endpoint.
We are also in NYC off Broadway and Wall Street so their is fiber under every block over here!
Wow NYC is sooooooo much cheaper then long island. I guess its because of the distances involved.
We’ve talked to Lightpath before and they are cheaper but we don’t get the IPs that we need.
Back then when we talked to them I think they would only give us like 2-3 IPs to work with which simply would not suffice.
They have a large presence of fiber in our building and could be connected within a few days for sure, but it is not an avenue that we have chose to explore at this time.
Sloth – IP’s dont come from the ISP they come from the ICANN! If you can prove what you want them for (simple chart) then you can have them anything up to a /26 is free anything over costs money.
What are they telling you?
And these prices have only come crashing down in NYC because of the companies going out of business and the stiff competition!
Currently we get our IPs from the ISP. The ISP owns them and leases them to us. I didn’t negotiate this…it predates me, because I never would have allowed this.
But again, we talked to Lightpath about 4-5 years ago about this. And we weren’t really serious so we didn’t go any further than talking to the sales weenie.
If anyone has any questions about Long Island Fiber, just let me know. Pricing is not fixed like some carriers, it depends where you are in relation to the network. jmeltzer@
majortom1981 shoot me an email, curious who you are with?
Jeffrey Meltzer
Director of Network Operations
Long Island Fiber