[152738] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent for ISP bandwidth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John T. Yocum)
Mon May 14 18:13:02 2012
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 15:12:29 -0700
From: "John T. Yocum" <john.yocum@fluidhosting.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4FB1813C.7080207@thebaughers.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In my experience Cogent is fine when used in a BGP mix. When we used
them, our service was quite reliable. Routing was funky at times, but we
never had packet loss.
--John
On 5/14/2012 3:03 PM, Jason Baugher wrote:
> The emails on the Outages list reminded me to ask this question...
>
> I've done some searching and haven't been able to find much in the last
> 3 years as to their reliability and suitability as an upstream provider.
> For a regional ISP looking for GigE ports in the Chicago/St. Louis area,
> is Cogent a reasonable solution? Our gut feeling is that they don't
> stack up against a Level3 or Sprint, but they are being very aggressive
> with pricing to try and get our business.
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
>
