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<DIV>Then we are bing ripped off, because we pay over $1000/month and do not
have WAIX. But this is our ISP plan and their special VPN account, however
we do get free backbone traffic. I have to decide is it worth it in the
long run. Our SLA is good and the service (tech support) is very
good. Just our monthly allocation of bandwidth is very bad (500MB) and I
do a lot of downloads of patches for clients with sizes ranging from the a few
KB's to 2-300MB. One or two of those and the monthly allocation is used
up. To top off everything else we pay $0.10 per MB after the initial
500MB. I've been thinking of switching, but Swiftel recently had some
outages that caused the xDSL to stop 3 times in 1 day and this is a worry since
my clients and myself need our system up all the time. Again I'm told this
this tends to happen late night or early morning.</DIV>
<DIV>I'm looking for folks that have been with Swiftel for at least a year to
answer some questions regarding their uptime vs downtime.</DIV>
<DIV>So if anyone on the list has been with Swiftel for at least a year can you
relay your thoughts on the service at Swiftel for the past year. Please
send this offline.</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks</DIV>
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<DIV>Jon L. Miller, MCNE, CNS, ASE<BR>Director/Sr Systems Consultant<BR>MMT
Networks Pty Ltd<BR><A
href="http://www.mmtnetworks.com.au">http://www.mmtnetworks.com.au</A></DIV>
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<DIV>"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure<BR> is trying
to please everybody." -Bill Cosby</DIV>
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<DIV><BR><BR>>>> leon@brooks.fdns.net 2:51:59 PM 16/10/2003
>>><BR>On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 07:06, Scott Middleton wrote:<BR>> if
you[']r[e] in WA and you don't have free WAIX then you are<BR>> being ripped
off.I couldn't survive without it.<BR><BR>One of my customers does over 60% of
their traffic through WAIX. They <BR>still pay circa $1000 a month for
connectivity, including 1c/MB for <BR>non-WAIX data.<BR><BR>Cheers;
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