[110580] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent (was the poetry thread)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (joe mcguckin)
Mon Jan 12 13:42:41 2009
From: joe mcguckin <joe@via.net>
To: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
In-Reply-To: <496B8933.5050605@rollernet.us>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:41:35 -0800
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
So, you're essentially getting paid peering from Cogent then ?
Joe McGuckin
ViaNet Communications
joe@via.net
650-207-0372 cell
650-213-1302 office
650-969-2124 fax
On Jan 12, 2009, at 10:17 AM, Seth Mattinen wrote:
> Jeffrey Lyon wrote:
>> Mike,
>> Aside from the occasional peering wars i've never had or witnessed
>> any
>> serious issues with Cogent. If you want some redundancy you might
>> also
>> try some other similarly priced providers like WBS Connect, HE, or
>> BtN.
>
> (resend due to subject filter)
>
> Plus if you had direct connectivity to Cogent, their peering status
> with
> others wouldn't affect you anymore. Personally, I've seriously
> considered this as a reason to get a connection from Cogent.
>
> ~Seth
>
