Re: Querstions about COGENT and their services...

2008-06-03 Thread Michael J McCafferty
Todd, I once had that same question. I bought FastE from Cogent almost a year ago for out of band management of our production gear. But, I put up a couple of old Celerons running Smokeping up, pinging the same 37 remote networks. One server on Cogent, and one on our colo providers super-wi

Re: Querstions about COGENT and their services...

2008-06-03 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
"randal k" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We've had Cogent for going on three years now, and they've been > nothing but exceptional across the board. Our sales guy is excellent - > attentive but not overbearing. Must not be Joe Kusa then. He managed to get Cogent onto my "do not buy from these

RE: Querstions about COGENT and their services...

2008-06-03 Thread Scott Berkman
price, but also to ensure you can reach their customers if/when the next spat happens. Just my 2 cents, -Scott -Original Message- From: Greg VILLAIN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 2:55 PM To: nanog list Subject: Re: Querstions about COGENT

Re: Querstions about COGENT and their services...

2008-06-03 Thread Ryan Harden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Overall Cogent has been okay. We've had a few issues over the last several months. One specifically bothersome as it cropped up several times. They basically kept rewriting their CoPP ACLs and kept dropping my side of the /30 from the allow list. This

Re: Querstions about COGENT and their services...

2008-06-03 Thread Greg VILLAIN
On Jun 3, 2008, at 6:06 PM, TS Glassey wrote: So at one time Cogent was one of the lowest performing bandwidth providers. Anyone have any responses to their current operations? regards, Todd Glassey CISM CIFI Chief Scientist/Founder - Certichron Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] 650-796-8178 Couple r

Re: Querstions about COGENT and their services...

2008-06-03 Thread David Coulson
Mike Tancsa wrote: They are also one of the biggest providers... Proportionally speaking, if they had the same percentage of failures as a provider 10% of their size, it would appear Cogent is "worse" as there would be more reports. Also, in my experience, I find Cogent pretty good about admi

Re: Querstions about COGENT and their services...

2008-06-03 Thread Joe Maimon
Beware their max-prefix limits, they dont appear to reset automatically. If you want to be able to do any TE with de-aggregation, make sure their prefix limit is high enough. I have had complaints about their performance to AOL and others. Joe TS Glassey wrote: So at one time Cogent was one

Re: Querstions about COGENT and their services...

2008-06-03 Thread Marshall Eubanks
I have been very pleased with our service from Cogent. Regards Marshall On Jun 3, 2008, at 1:06 PM, randal k wrote: We've had Cogent for going on three years now, and they've been nothing but exceptional across the board. Our sales guy is excellent - attentive but not overbearing. We've had on

Re: Querstions about COGENT and their services...

2008-06-03 Thread Matt Kelly
Try getting a credit from Cogent on a billing error, it's impossible. Every single credit must be approved by the CEO as told to me by the billing director located in DC. Their network is oversold and they can't supply what they promise. It's one thing to offer service cheap, it's a whole

Re: Querstions about COGENT and their services...

2008-06-03 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 12:10 PM 6/3/2008, David Coulson wrote: the cheapest, that's for sure. I've not heard anything about them in the last couple of months, but the last year has been filled with almost monthly service outages or congestion. They are also one of the biggest providers... Proportionally speakin

Re: Querstions about COGENT and their services...

2008-06-03 Thread randal k
We've had Cogent for going on three years now, and they've been nothing but exceptional across the board. Our sales guy is excellent - attentive but not overbearing. We've had one easily-resolved billing issue, and their team got us squared away on one call. Their tech support has been phenomenal f

RE: Querstions about COGENT and their services...

2008-06-03 Thread David Hubbard
From: David Coulson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > There have been a few discussions over the last few months on > Cogent - Seems the response is mixed, depending if you're on > Cogent or old PSINet facilities. My experience has been that > you get what you pay for - They're the cheapest, that's

Re: Querstions about COGENT and their services...

2008-06-03 Thread William Herrin
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 12:06 PM, TS Glassey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So at one time Cogent was one of the lowest performing bandwidth providers. > Anyone have any responses to their current operations? They got into a spat with Telia a few months back. Severed those portions of the Internet th

Re: Querstions about COGENT and their services...

2008-06-03 Thread Chris Stone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 03 June 2008 10:06:33 am TS Glassey wrote: > So at one time Cogent was one of the lowest performing bandwidth providers. > Anyone have any responses to their current operations? > > regards, > Todd Glassey CISM CIFI > Chief Scientist/Founder

Re: Querstions about COGENT and their services...

2008-06-03 Thread David Coulson
There have been a few discussions over the last few months on Cogent - Seems the response is mixed, depending if you're on Cogent or old PSINet facilities. My experience has been that you get what you pay for - They're the cheapest, that's for sure. I've not heard anything about them in the las

Querstions about COGENT and their services...

2008-06-03 Thread TS Glassey
So at one time Cogent was one of the lowest performing bandwidth providers. Anyone have any responses to their current operations? regards, Todd Glassey CISM CIFI Chief Scientist/Founder - Certichron Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] 650-796-8178