Has anyone here dealt with ACSI? They call themselves a "backbone"
provider.
We have had no end of trouble getting address space from them (They
refuse to give us a /24 (yes, a /24) without significant
documentation.)
When I asked about them delegating reverse DNS to us, they said "no".
They want to keep the delegation and do zone transfers from us.
Are these common policies with ACSI (or other backbone providers), or
are they just trying to be annoying? My only experience with these
things has been SprinkLink. They delegate reverse DNS to us, no
problem. We have never had problems getting address space from them
(granted we are not asking for /19's)
Also, does anyone have any experience with the performance of their
network? I was trying to test our connection to them and it was
horribly, horribly slow. Accessing www.yahoo.com, for example, took
nearly 5 mins for the page to load. Accessing the same page via our
SprintLink connection took all of 5 seconds. I suspect it was
something on our network, but I wanted to get the impressions of
other people regarding their performance.
Has anyone here dealt with ACSI? They call themselves a "backbone"
provider.
ACSI has a horrendous spam problem due to Dakotacom and a few other
leased line spam factories. Now that AGIS appears slowly to be
cleaning up their act, ACSI is poised to become the NSP that everyone
hates and filters out. I am trying to get in touch with people there
who can do something about it, and I have no reason yet to believe
that they're anything other than underinformed, but the spam problem
is very real and very well known. See my spam summary page http://www.abuse.net/ACSI-report.html to see what they've sent lately
to addresses on my tiny home network.
Until they get that problem under control, I would be very cautious
about depending on them for connections to the rest of the net.
I have one T1 through ACSI currently (two others through MCI and AT&T).
Our sales rep is really on the ball, but their engineering department
seems to be less than cooperative. I sent in our BGP requirements/request
to their NOC on Oct 15th (for the 2nd time) and I still haven't even
*heard* from them. My sales rep is trying to raise cain, but doesn't seem
to be working yet.
As for IP requests: I don't even want to go there. You might have
better luck going directly to the InterNIC than through ACSI.
This CLEC is incredibly priced, but in the end you might just get what you
pay for.
Regards,
Barry
Barry L James | Mikrotec Internet Services, Inc (AS3801)
Director R & D | 1001 Winchester Rd bjames@mis.net | Lexington KY 40505 http://www.mis.net/ | 606/225.1488 800/875.5095
Of course, one of the reasons is that Mr. Madison hasn't responded to
requests for BGP announcement changes in the last two weeks and, indeed,
has been making no visible announcements since last week.
My recommendation - switch to priori.net, the folks I know and trust.
Anyone have a soft landing spot when we get kicked out of ACSI colo in Las
Colinas?