charges for prefix filter updates (was Re: Any ISPs using AS852 for IP Transit?)

[Ken Chase <math () sizone org>]

I feel this can be a public topic:

Rogers just charged us that for an update (one update, multiple entries).
We had to go through their quotation machinery too, took like 4-5 days. Additional
time was wasted because we contacted their tech dept directly at the start. (which
is what I do for all my other upstreams...)

Kinda brutal.

Cogent and HE nor NAC or Yipes or Tata ever did that to us.

Nickle and diming -- why, cuz transit is a cheap commodity now, gotta make the
cash somewhere?

That said Cogent offered us a static /26 along side our BGP years ago then warned
us it'd be $50/mo or something for that # of ips going forward. We didnt need it
so dispensed with it.

/kc


On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 02:07:01PM -0400, Jason Lixfeld said:
  >If there are any ISPs who use TELUS/AS852 for IP Transit over BGP, I???d be interested in hearing from you.
  >
  >I???d like to compare notes to see if you are also paying $250 for each BGP prefix filter updated request, or if 
we???re the only ones???
  >
  >Thanks in advance!

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Ken Chase - math () sizone org Toronto Canada