HOT ISP (Was: Orange as a landline ISP)

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 04:37:39AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote:
>they are all worthless, it mostly depends on what exactly you need from the at
>the time.

Is there a way to combine several "usless at some times and not others" 
connections to get a better service reliabilty and still not have to
go with SIFRANET (fiber optic connection) and BYNET as an ISP?

I think it would need a combination of automatic routing based on performance,
so that the connection with the best performance to a site was used. Most of
the time this could be static, but it would have to be dynamic enough to
handle connection outages and slowdowns.

It might even be enough to monitor a connection and if it fails, reroute
everything to the other connection and reset it when it came back, but the
purist in me prefers something dynamic.

It's not even a question of the best performance I can get at any given
momement from the proper routing, it's more just keeping things going
when a failure occurs. They used to be short, now they are several hours
or more.

Geoff,


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