[AbyssUnderground]

Hello all,

After some ongoing problems with OVH servers, so many people were complaining to the providor about Virgin Media connections being slow to their datacenter, that they e-mailed Virgin Media and asked them if they would consider peering with LINX, the London Internet Exchange.

The following quotes are from "oles" aka "octave", the OVH manager. If anyone can get something done, its this guy.

http://forum.ovh.co.uk/showthread.php?t=742&page=2

Thanks. Email sent to ntli

Dear NTLI,
Your customer contact us before the connexion is slow.
I think you don't accept our prefix and you send us the
trafic thought transit upstream DTAG.

We have a peering on Linx, Amsix, Decix and Sfinx. The best
would be Linx I think.

Thanks in advance
Regards,
Octave

http://forum.ovh.co.uk/showthread.php?t=733&page=6

I've already send an email about it. We don't know why Virginmedia uses transit to reach Ovh and not peering. They seem to be full on DTAG transit. We aren't full on DTAG. They don't answer the emails. It's not "our side" network problem, but on Virgin side (they manage the outcoming trafic as we do, but we can't manage incoming traffic). If you have the NOC contacts or/and the phone number of virgin media NOC, it could help. If you have a looking glass from Virgin it could too, since I can check if I can change something to manage the incoming trafic ... It's more difficult but it can help.

http://forum.ovh.co.uk/showthread.php?t=733&page=7

got answser from virgin. peering is setup on my side. waiting for
the setup on virgin's side. then all problems are resolved

This is great news for anyone who uses OVH servers but also better news because it means VM will be connected to LINX, and have access to peering networks we never had before. Remember that peering is free, so it does not cost VM anything to connect except the hardware to do so. It does mean however that VM will act as peering for other networks as well as using the other networks peerings themselves. Its all about sharing (a bit like p2p really!).

I hope this makes a huge difference to browsing in Europe as well as speeds to the Roubaix OVH Datacenter.