On Dec 15, 2009, at 3:53 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote: > Babak Pasdar wrote: >> Dear List, >> I am getting a big push from Cogent on their full GigE for $1.50 per >> circuit. What are your experiences with Cogent in general? If on the >> fence, how would you use their service for this deal to make sense? > > $1.50 per meg. ;) I'd probably take it just because I could at that price. > The downsides with Cogent is that they occasionally get into peering spats > that might hurt you if you aren't multihomed, and no usable IPv6 (if that > matters to you). I hadn't looked into it any further because I'm not located > anywhere Cogent is to give it a serious look.
I'm pretty sure the system at $DAY_JOB is better at pushing bits near, but not quite over, the hard limit of a link than any other out there. And I am dead certain I could not get 1000 Mbps out of a GigE without serious packet loss. Even assuming 900 Mbps (good luck), you're at $1.66/Mbps. Most people do 50%, so that would be $3/Mbps. Still probably a good price for 500 Mbps. But how much OpEx do you have to spend to ensure that link stays below 1 Gbps 24/7/365? And if you only have 100 Mbps, though, it doesn't look so good. -- TTFN, patrick
