<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 11 November 2014 18:11, Shane Short <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shane@short.id.au" target="_blank">shane@short.id.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">To be honest-- getting
someone who's capable of doing that level of troubleshooting ad-hoc is
hard, especially if you don't have the budgets because you're in a price
war with your competitors.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Bingo! And that's the mindset across the board with small and large players - that budgetary constraints mean that staff is typically the first place to look for cost cutting.</div><div><br></div><div>When I worked years ago at KBS Internet and also Connect.com we only had a T2 helpdesk to deal with corporates/wholesales. I also had config access to ALL core/dist/edge routers and sudo access to hosting servers, etc. Things have changed since those days, but they could do it, so surely others can....</div><div><br></div><div>We are now stuck in a world where the members of this list hire T1 people themselves and expect better service from the T1 staff of their transit providers. T1 skill-sets don't really change much in companies, and nor do their pay grades. </div></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Shaineel Singh<br>e: <a href="mailto:shain.singh@gmail.com" target="_blank">shain.singh@gmail.com</a><br>p: +61 422 921 951<br>w: <a href="http://buffet.shainsingh.com" target="_blank">http://buffet.shainsingh.com</a><br><br>--<br>"Too many have dispensed with generosity to practice charity" - Albert Camus</div>
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