Yipes!....question.

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Greetings,

  I was approached by a sales rep. from Yipes! Communications
today...and he talked a good sales speech. I am requesting
information from anyone who has either directly worked with Yipes!
(as a network operator) or a customer.

  1. Do they really deliver the speeds they promise?
  2. What do their peering points look like?
(speed/partners/protocols?)
  3. How responsive are they to support issues/downtime?

I appreciate any feedback, please send off-list as I'm not sure if
everyone wants to read info like this or not, use discression.

Thanks a bunch,

Ralph M. Los
Asst. Vice-President, Internet Systems and Security
EnvestNet Advisory Corp.
rlos@envestnet.com
(312) 827-3945 (direct)
(312) 296-9003 (wireless w/voicemail)

"Los, Ralph" wrote:

        I was approached by a sales rep. from Yipes! Communications
today...and he talked a good sales speech. I am requesting
information from anyone who has either directly worked with Yipes!
(as a network operator) or a customer.

        1. Do they really deliver the speeds they promise?
        2. What do their peering points look like?
(speed/partners/protocols?)
        3. How responsive are they to support issues/downtime?

Looks like a nice product. I haven't used it. I wonder about
a company that doesn't say where it does business, though. I'm in
Northeast Ohio and they don't have a list of locations they service.

Looks like a nice product. I haven't used it. I wonder about

    > a company that doesn't say where it does business, though. I'm in
    > Northeast Ohio and they don't have a list of locations they service.

In so far as I can tell, the only location where Yipes sells service is in
downtown Palo Alto, California. Of course, this is only judging from the
list of places they've told me they _can't_ provide service, and the fact
that whenever they tell me they can't provide service in, say, downtown
San Francisco, they immediately follow up by asking if I wouldn't really
rather receive service in Palo Alto, instead.

                                -Bill