Did you mean $9/meg or $0.90/meg? $9/meg isn't much to write home about. ;-)
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -------------------------------------------------- From: "Justin Wilson" <j...@mtin.net> Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 11:48 AM To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>; "RickG" <rgunder...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo > Yup. If you are at an on-net building you can get it even cheaper. > One > client is buying for $9 a meg in bulk in Chicago. Their biggest hurdle > are > peering agreements with the big boys. The AT&t¹s of the world are sort of > tolerating them at the moment until they can figure out what to do. They > tried de-peering with them a few years ago and there was an outcry. Lots > of > web-sites are hosted on cogent bandwidth. > > Justin > > -- > Justin Wilson <j...@mtin.net> > CCNA CCNT Mikrotik Advanced > http://www.mtin.net - Homepage > http://www.mtin.net/blog - Technical Blog > > XISP solutions Hosting Consulting Tower Climbing > > > From: RickG <rgunder...@gmail.com> > Reply-To: WISPA General List <wireless@wispa.org> > Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:33:16 -0500 > To: WISPA General List <wireless@wispa.org> > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo > > I hear $1500 for a gig! > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Mike Hammett > <wispawirel...@ics-il.net>wrote: > >> I wish I was a bit closer to a POP to take advantage of it, but my Cogent >> rep informed me that through the end of the month, they have a promo >> going >> $400/100 megabit 1 year contract. Only available at Cogent and carrier >> neutral data centers. These facilities are listed on their web site >> under >> the network heading. A complete building list (and not eligible for this >> promo) is available in the service locator under Dedicated Internet >> access. >> >> Not all of their host buildings allow roof access, but I believe a >> significant number of them do. I encourage you to build your network out >> to >> these facilities. >> >> Sure, someone's going to hop on here and complain about how horrible >> Cogent >> is, but every carrier has their good and bad spots. I'm sure I could >> find >> someone to honestly say the same things about AT&T, VZB, Level3, >> InterNAP, >> XO, MZima, etc., etc. It doesn't matter the carrier, I strongly >> encourage >> you to have more than one. >> >> Feel free to blast the list with questions about building your network to >> Cogent, routing policies to best combine Cogent and your existing >> provider, >> etc. These things would apply to any carrier, not just Cogent. >> >> >> ----- >> Mike Hammett >> Intelligent Computing Solutions >> http://www.ics-il.com >> >> >> >> >> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> >> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
