Re: Cogent for ISP bandwidth

["John T. Yocum" <john.yocum () fluidhosting com>]

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