Drew Weaver wrote:
We have heard a lot of negatives about them, about their pricing
model, about their network, about de-peering with Level 3, etc. What we
really need is actual information.
Here's a good one about Cogent. 100BaseTX connection from us to a
Cogent Cat3550 (A). A
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 01:56:00AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(from Marty)
From a global perspective[1], the top 12 (I stopped at Cogent since you
are asking about them) service providers whose customers and peering
partners reach the largest number of networks are listed below.
At 01:56 AM 3/8/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Martin Hannigan wrote:
I am looking for user experiences for people who have
purchased
transit from cogent in the 300Mbps or up range as far as performance,
stability, and any other measurable metric of quality
On 3/8/06, Todd Underwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 01:56:00AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(from Marty)
From a global perspective[1], the top 12 (I stopped at Cogent since you
are asking about them) service providers whose customers and peering
partners
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Martin Hannigan wrote:
We have heard a lot of negatives about them, about their
pricing model, about their network, about de-peering with
Level 3, etc. What we really need is actual information.
Much of the negatives is from jaded
On Mar 8, 2006, at 1:56 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At certain cities, your experience will be worse - Cogent doesn't have
peers with big boys in every city they are at - so you'll have more
chance
of being backhauled to sfo/iad than if you bought from $bigger-
carrier.
It's not just
On 3/8/06 8:57 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mar 8, 2006, at 1:56 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
With regard to depeerings: they are a fact of life on the internet
- and
as a service provider, you should always have multiple transits,
for this
and other reasons.
At 09:35 AM 3/8/2006, Daniel Golding wrote:
On 3/8/06 8:57 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mar 8, 2006, at 1:56 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
With regard to depeerings: they are a fact of life on the internet
- and
as a service provider, you should always have
Much of the negatives is from jaded competitors who don't
want to fairly compete. Other than that, the answer is 'it depends'.
Depends on if you like to do traffic engineering; Cogent's
BGP community support, consisting of a whole three things you
can set (two if you only have a single
On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Drew Weaver wrote:
I am looking for user experiences for people who have purchased
transit from cogent in the 300Mbps or up range as far as performance,
stability, and any other measurable metric of quality you can come up
with.
We have heard a lot of
dan, all,
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 09:35:15AM -0500, Daniel Golding wrote:
If your choice is between Cogent and some other provider, you are making a
mistake. Cogent (and other low cost transit providers) can be part of a
balanced stable of transit providers. Folks who single-home to Cogent
At 08:57 AM 3/8/2006, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
On Mar 8, 2006, at 1:56 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At certain cities, your experience will be worse - Cogent doesn't have
peers with big boys in every city they are at - so you'll have more
chance
of being backhauled to sfo/iad than if you
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 10:28:20AM -0600, Jay Ford wrote:
[ .. snip .. ]
o lack of well-published BGP knobs, such as communities to influence
localpref... (they apparently exist, but are not well documented that
I've been able to find)
have you contacted [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Charles Gucker
Depends on if you like to do traffic engineering; Cogent's
BGP community support, consisting of a whole three things you
can set (two if you only have a single connection to them),
makes that rather difficult.
Umm, where did you get that mis-information from?
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 12:10:35PM -0500, Omachonu Ogali wrote:
I have the need to de-pref my routes to Level3, to be of equal value as the
routes they receive from their peers, but they don't offer a community for
that. But wow, I can see that this route originated from Tustin, CA!
Hrm, this
On Mar 8, 2006, at 9:35 AM, Daniel Golding wrote:
One way to look at this is that you are getting a very low price
per mbps
with Cogent. Therefore, when Cogent's CEO decides its in his best
interest
to partition for a week over a depeering situation, their
customer's role is
to suck it
On Mar 8, 2006, at 11:43 AM, Daniel Senie wrote:
At 08:57 AM 3/8/2006, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
It's not just cities, it's entire countries. Try being on a DSL line
in France and getting to a Cogent web server in France.
How is this different from being a Comcast cable modem customer in
On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Martin Hannigan wrote:
I am looking for user experiences for people who have
purchased
transit from cogent in the 300Mbps or up range as far as performance,
stability, and any other measurable metric of quality you can come up
with.
We have heard a
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