Looking back at RFO from past 30 days one of the outages was a fiber cut in Texas, just FYI.
Erich Kaiser North Central Tower er...@northcentraltower.com Office: 630-621-4804 Cell: 630-777-9291 On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 10:39 AM, Erich Kaiser <er...@northcentraltower.com> wrote: > Yep they have had a few hiccups, but overall very happy with them. As I > said, "Every company is going to have some issue, but it seems like > Cogent continuously gets a bad wrap." This is also why we try to offload > most major content via peering exchanges instead of using transit provider > to get to it. > > In my 15 years as a WISP, I had probably around 7 different upstreams, > each had its own caveat. > > This is getting off topic but a large industry pressing issue is Fiber > Cuts... Since building the Fusion network the last year and a half, and > now being national in the US, we have learned a lot about fiber cuts. > Anything is possible. Is it me or are the contractors more careless than > ever, or maybe it is the locator services? Texas seems to have the worst > track record so far. > > > > Erich Kaiser > North Central Tower > er...@northcentraltower.com > Office: 630-621-4804 > Cell: 630-777-9291 > > > On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 10:13 AM, Josh Reynolds <j...@kyneticwifi.com> > wrote: > >> The number of large outages Telia has had in the US in the past few >> months is staggering. >> >> They are trying really hard to get business right now though, and their >> price reflects it. >> On Jul 2, 2016 8:40 AM, "Erich Kaiser" <er...@northcentraltower.com> >> wrote: >> >>> I think all the negativity speaks for itself LOL. When running my WISP, >>> I had them for a year, and it sucked. The congestion in CHI was terrible. >>> Now I am not sure that is a problem in CHI any longer, but that was my >>> experience 3 years ago. On the Fusion network we use Telia as our primary >>> Full route provider, we pop out multiple DIAs from them. We have a really >>> good relationship with them and can talk to decision makers in the US. You >>> don't get the "Upper management is not going to do it" scenario, I have >>> heard that line from Cogent to many times. They do have persistent sales >>> people, I think they contact me once a month. Every company is going to >>> have some issue, but it seems like Cogent continuously gets a bad wrap. >>> >>> Erich Kaiser >>> North Central Tower >>> er...@northcentraltower.com >>> Office: 630-621-4804 >>> Cell: 630-777-9291 >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 7:49 AM, Mike Hammett <af...@ics-il.net> wrote: >>> >>>> I think you need some BGP tweaks to better take advantage of Cogent, >>>> given the scale of their network. >>>> >>>> http://bgp.he.net/report/peers >>>> http://as-rank.caida.org/ >>>> http://research.dyn.com/2016/04/a-bakers-dozen-2015-edition/ >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ----- >>>> Mike Hammett >>>> Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/> >>>> <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> >>>> <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> >>>> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> >>>> <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> >>>> Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> >>>> <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> >>>> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> >>>> <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> >>>> The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> >>>> <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> >>>> >>>> >>>> <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> >>>> ------------------------------ >>>> *From: *"Paul Stewart" <p...@paulstewart.org> >>>> *To: *af@afmug.com >>>> *Sent: *Saturday, July 2, 2016 7:23:50 AM >>>> *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] Cogent >>>> >>>> That number of directly connected customers is dropping … we used to >>>> buy transit from them a number of years back – a lot of issues with routing >>>> in different regions, mainly in the US … then we dropped their transit and >>>> peered with them on PNI’s. The traffic (which is only their on-net traffic >>>> to be specific) hasn’t changed much in last couple of years, I think it’s >>>> actually dropped some – but regardless it accounts for only 3% of our >>>> traffic in total …. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Paul >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> *From:* Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *Peter Kranz >>>> *Sent:* July 2, 2016 2:04 AM >>>> *To:* af@afmug.com >>>> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Cogent >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Cogent is great as long as you have another peer to balance out >>>> “issues”. They have a shitload of the internet as directly connected >>>> customers. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -PK >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> *From:* Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com <af-boun...@afmug.com>] *On >>>> Behalf Of *Mike Hammett >>>> *Sent:* Friday, July 01, 2016 6:44 PM >>>> *To:* af@afmug.com >>>> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Cogent >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Location does make a big difference. I would in no way use them for a >>>> single upstream. For one, Cogent doesn't have the entire IPv6 Internet. >>>> They are great in a mix, especially if you have a route management platform >>>> or take only customer routes. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ----- >>>> Mike Hammett >>>> Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/> >>>> [image: http://www.ics-il.com/images/fbicon.png] >>>> <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL>[image: >>>> http://www.ics-il.com/images/googleicon.png] >>>> <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb>[image: >>>> http://www.ics-il.com/images/linkedinicon.png] >>>> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions>[image: >>>> http://www.ics-il.com/images/twittericon.png] >>>> <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> >>>> Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> >>>> [image: http://www.ics-il.com/images/fbicon.png] >>>> <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix>[image: >>>> http://www.ics-il.com/images/linkedinicon.png] >>>> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange>[image: >>>> http://www.ics-il.com/images/twittericon.png] >>>> <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> >>>> The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> >>>> [image: http://www.ics-il.com/images/fbicon.png] >>>> <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp>[image: >>>> http://www.ics-il.com/images/youtubeicon.png] >>>> >>>> >>>> <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> >>>> ------------------------------ >>>> >>>> *From: *"Jason McKemie" <j.mcke...@veloxinetbroadband.com> >>>> *To: *af@afmug.com >>>> *Sent: *Friday, July 1, 2016 5:52:04 PM >>>> *Subject: *[AFMUG] Cogent >>>> >>>> Does anyone have experience with Cogent as a primary upstream? Good, >>>> bad, ugly? I assume the service location makes some difference as well. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -Jason >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >
