MPLS provider Ethernet handoff question

Hi Everyone,
Here is what I am after from my ISP: I want MPLS with an Ethernet handoff, but do not want them to manage the router. I don't have to mess with bonding T1's or DS1's etc. due to past experience: It was always a battle of my WIC vs there smartjack being good or bad.
Here is my question:
These days, can providers typically hand off Ethernet so that I don't have to mess with bonding T1's or DS1's etc.?
Thanks,
Josh

Hi Josh
Yes now providers are changing towards Ethernet handoffs but some providers would make this decision on the bandwidth requirement per site, for obvious reasons.
Regards

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Yesterday I replaced my old TC by copying its configuration file and importing it while setting up the new unit. This seems to work out fine for all the wireless and wired clients except for one, my Mac Pro, which is connected to an ethernet port on the new TC.
Check the connectivity leds come on.. both on the TC and the Mac Pro. although I am not sure if it has connectivity led.
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Network Preferences recognizes that the ethernet cable is plugged into the Mac, but it has a very different IP address than the other clients and can't connect to the network or the Internet. I suspected either a port on the new TC wasn't working right or something was wrong with the cable itself (though everything was fine before the TC replacement) but after reordering the ethernet port connections and successfully connecting my laptop to the network through the same ethernet cable my Mac Pro was on, I realized all the connections appear to be fine and the problem is likely the Mac Pro.
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