[152739] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent for ISP bandwidth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin Wilson)
Mon May 14 18:34:08 2012
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 18:33:26 -0400
From: Justin Wilson <lists@mtin.net>
To: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <4FB1813C.7080207@thebaughers.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I have very little issues with Cogent in the Chicago/Indiana/St. Louis
areas. They are peered much better than they were a few years ago.
We have 1 client at Cermack purchasing Cogent bandwidth through a third
party at well under $1 a meg.
Justin
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Baugher <jason@thebaughers.com>
Date: Monday, May 14, 2012 6:03 PM
To: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Subject: Cogent for ISP bandwidth
>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
>
