hi stephan
you have always a possibility to fix this - you can buy transit in form of a paid peering with those networks who are customer-critical and be badly peered on your existing upstreams. (be careful: no full transit - just peering only - with full transit you import a lot of this problems in your network)
political it´s a bad solution because you support carrier who don't care about good quality and needed peerings in your region. the better version would be to kick out such carriers from the market... but it will improve your own network, so that you can beat all other guys who still stuck in problems with those other carriers.
bernd
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Stephan Wolf [mailto:swinog-ch@hightowernet.de] Gesendet: Dienstag, 05. Februar 2013 23:26 An: Bernd SPIESS; swinog Betreff: Re: [swinog] Cablecom Home to London via USA
Hi Bernd,
uh, I started a big discussion here ;)
2013/2/5 Bernd SPIESS bernd.spiess@essgroup.at:
hi stephan this is the reason why it is important to really really pick carefully your ip-access or ip-transit provider. ip is not a matter of price/mbit as you can see here
from that point you are completely right.
we as service providers can choose. also I did. I have multiple ISP's @home (yess...), and also in all datacenters.
bu see customer side: - they can choose, too - but they don't care - they choose by price - or because basis link is already there
effectively: - imagine you offer a partners service in sitzerland - and the access is slow for customers - effectively cablecom customers - reason is cablecom ('s peering policy) - but they don't care
so effectively technical this is not my problem here. it is a problem from customers chosen ISP
but again: tell this (just a guess) 1.5 milllion cablecom internet customers
no chance ;)
the only solution: - most cablecom customers must be unhappy and cancel contract - then they may change peering policy
but effectively they will cancel "the other side". because they don't care.
cheers, stephan
ps: got no feedback by upc at all