Re: Cogent for ISP bandwidth

[Paul WALL <pauldotwall () gmail com>]

Cogent is really better suited as a tertiary provider.

Not a bad option, but you don't want to lose redundancy when they get
involved in their peering dispute or de-peering du jour.

Drive Slow,
Paul Wall

On 5/14/12, Michael J McCafferty <mike () m5computersecurity com> wrote:
> Jason,
>
> I agree with John. You can't use them as your only provider, but you
> wouldn't do that with *any* provider. I will add that they answer the
> phone quickly, and the person who answers usually has a clue, has access
> to the routers, and can be helpful. It's one of the benefits that they
> really only sell one product. Honestly, I think their support is better
> than most and the deliver what they say or better.
>
> In the past the had a A peer / B peer setup that was a little funky, but
> I think they are getting rid of that as they upgrade hardware throughout
> their network.
>
> We do also use Level3 (and others). As long as they come in to your
> facility on different fiber or otherwise meet you physical diversity
> requirements, you should be pretty happy. Add low commits to other
> providers for more diversity as needed.
>
> Good luck,
> Mike
>
> On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 15:12 -0700, John T. Yocum wrote:
> > In my experience Cogent is fine when used in a BGP mix. When we used
> > them, our service was quite reliable. Routing was funky at times, but we
> > never had packet loss.
> >
> > --John
> >
> > On 5/14/2012 3:03 PM, Jason Baugher wrote:
> > > The emails on the Outages list reminded me to ask this question...
> > >
> > > 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.
> > > For a regional ISP looking for GigE ports in the Chicago/St. Louis
> > > area,
> > > is Cogent a reasonable solution? Our gut feeling is that they don't
> > > stack up against a Level3 or Sprint, but they are being very aggressive
> > > with pricing to try and get our business.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Jason
>
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