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Not sure about BT. But I use wireless for my TV.

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Ha just saw the ones I have are discontinued, but there are plenty like that to chose from.

Too Close for Comfort

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Give me some more info on why

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I guess everyone has different experiences.. I will start at the beginning.

I was a a company that aquired a company that had a Broadwing MPLS circuit. Level 3 then bought broadwing. Had an outage at a Chicago POP that took down our Cincy and Indy office. Called Level 3 talked to some idiot. I was told he did not know where the issue was and that all of the BW engineers were let go before mapping out the network. To which I replied ok well start with a traceroute and when you see the little *'s appear start there.

L3 had built by M&A and where AT&T succeeded they have failed. If you talk to them they have not merged the technology. It's like a bunch of little networks all over that run independently. Rather then conforming them all into one larger network.

Also have some MPLS and DIA with them at my current job. They have constant outages and on the MPLS side it seems they struggle with honoring QoS that is being put in place.

For those of you managing ISP Contracts.

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Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NYSE: LVLT) and tw telecom (NASDAQ: TWTC) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement, intended to qualify as a tax-free reorganization, whereby Level 3 will acquire tw telecom in a stock-and-cash transaction valued at $40.86 per share based on market close as of June 13, 2014.

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Level 3 is so bad.

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Comcast can deliver a layer 2 Ethernet connection (over fiber) from my new site to my "hub" data center

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If you can get a layer two circuit to your DC and it's part of the WAN\MPLS just use a vlan across those two. Setup a /30 and maybe run EIGRP\OSPF depending on your equipment and the size of your network. If the VLANs you need the location to see is small you can just do static routes. Or even still you can route all traffic across the layer2 and them push your internet out of the DC too. A lot of options if you are getting a Layer 2 circuit. Think of it as nothing more then a network cable to a IDF within the same building.