On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 09:27:57PM -0500, Jason Baugher wrote: > On 5/14/2012 7:30 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > >----- Original Message ----- > >>From: "Jason Baugher"<ja...@thebaughers.com> > >>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. > >Really? That surprises me; people complain about Cogent on here, roughly, > >weekly. :-) > > Sorry, been on this list for quite some time, and I even went back > to the archives. I don't see much there that is specific to Cogent > doing a bad job. If I go back a few years, I find stuff about > Cogent-Telia, Cogent-GBX, and even Cogent-HE IPv6 peering.
So when you play "What's the common factor?", you get... ? <grin> We decided not to use Cogent as one of the suppliers for a recent PoP deployment because of these sorts of games -- it's not that we'd get caught in them (we've got three providers), but we just don't want to reward that sort of behaviour with our money. - Matt