yipes bandwidth experience

[whcdavid]

I was going though bandwidth providers and got good review about yipes. Do you have any experience or comments about them.

Thank you
David.K

Theyre ok, not that great - would be ok for file hosting etc or things not really needing good latency or routing.

Pretty stable though.

Yipes is pretty nasty stuff in my opinion. When used in BGP, very little is ever preferenced to it which of course is an immediate red flag

[crnc]

I agree. Not that impressive.

Yipes is cheap crappy bandwidth.
Cogent is a much better buy IMHO.

You can honestly do a lot better.

[RossH]

Isn't yipes just re-sold Level3/Wiltel? Anytime I see yipes I turn and run, I'd use Cogent before I used them.

[moosh28]

Yipes has 2 products yipesNET (L3 and WilTel blend) and yipes coloNET (straight wiltel). NET is sold to more enterprise clients, coloNET is strictly for clients in datacenters. price points have been good and bad in the past, really depends on the rep you get and the time of the month. the transit is blown to L3/Wiltel locally, so there is no real "network", as its more of a scenario of a xconnect (or transport over the local backplane to the upstream provider).But would have to agree, there are better options for transit.

With SBC purchasing AT+T, you can be pretty sure Wiltel will be looking for a buyer or will be folding. Somthing like 70% of their revenue came from SBC in the form of transport since SBC didn't have its own national network.

Yipes is not looking so go as a long term player IMHO.

[moosh28]

yeah, yipes is tough to figure out. transit is not their big product, yet they still basically resell. you'd figure being that big, they would have done more with the product.

the metro e, longhaul, and new euro transport offerings are their main focus now. would think they'd be a nice fit for some larger company's hole in the metro play. but, ya never know.