[79737] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OpenTransit (france telecom) depeers cogent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W Gilmore)
Thu Apr 14 16:14:01 2005
In-Reply-To: <20050414194712.GB13593@shekinah.ip.tiscali.net>
Cc: Patrick W Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>
From: Patrick W Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:13:33 -0400
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Apr 14, 2005, at 3:47 PM, Alexander Koch wrote:
>> [..] If I was an FT customer and
>> I'd seen this signal I'd be phoning Cogent now for a quote.
>
> I want my packets to make it to the destination. For some
> Euros more I get real transit from real networks. See, all
> the world is fine again. He who wants to save even more
> money gets what he pays for.
>
> I bet your viewpoint would maybe change if you had nearly
> exclusively DSL traffic and hardly B2B- type traffic. I
> could be wrong, of course.
You are wrong. I've heard the stories & rumors, but empirical evidence
> "so-and-so said". We send more than enough bit over Cogent to both
business and broadband users to be statistically significant, and the
packets get there. "YMMV", but our _experience_ sending packets over
AS174 is more than acceptable.
Do you have any real experience sending traffic over / through AS174?
To be clear, I could say the same about FT. Both run perfectly fine
networks, and both give very decent pricing. This is not to say we
have never had a problem - we've had problems with every network on the
'Net pretty much. But we were happy with both of them - until now.
And if they don't get their collective acts together, I am certain they
will both lose a lot of customers.
--
TTFN,
patrick
