[AusNOG] Amazon Direct Connect in Global Switch sucking

[Geordie Guy]

Will do.

On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Sam Wilson <swilsonau at gmail.com> wrote:

> Given the evident confusion around the topic if you could distil your
> off-list replies into usable info to share with the rest of the list, I
> would be all ears!
>
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Geordie Guy <elomis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Mmmmmm, that doesn't seem to make a lot of sense, either from a problem
>> or a solution perspective.  We have a dedicated fibre link to another
>> business.  There's not contention or oversubscription to exist in the way
>> that I usually use these words - it's a point to point service.  I get that
>> there's "never mind the man behind the curtain" stuff I'm willfully
>> ignoring but anecdotally this is meant to go somewhere near a gig and
>> doesn't. Also I'm not sure who else you go to for Amazon direct connect.
>>
>> I've got some great replies off list so thanks all.
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 12:34 PM, Paul Wilkins <paulwilkins369 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Nothing to be done. They're oversubscribed and TCP does what it does.
>>> You're not going to see better performance. They know they have packet loss
>>> as their monitoring tells them. If you're not getting the performance you
>>> pay for under your SLA, go somewhere else.
>>>
>>> Paul Wilkins
>>>
>>> On 18 September 2015 at 08:58, Geordie Guy <elomis at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>
>>>> We've had direct connect for a while through AWS and Global Switch
>>>> (we're a PIPE (so TPG)) customer and got it organised through them.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone have one of these and similarly struggle to get any donk
>>>> out of it?  We see 2-3% output drops and average bandwidth of 400Mbps on an
>>>> alleged 1Gbps link.  We've moved it to another terminating device, replaced
>>>> SFP, conducted shine tests both directions (-6dB roughly, hunky dory) and
>>>> the thing just won't GO.
>>>>
>>>> Starting to get intensely frustrated.  Any replies appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> G
>>>>
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