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Re: Cogent for ISP bandwidth
From: Faisal Imtiaz <faisal () snappydsl net>
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 23:49:23 -0400
I often tell folks, Cogent is the 'Heidi Fleiss' of the industry ...... pretty much everyone of the major carriers / providers deal with them.. but no one wants to admit it.
I don't think there is any carrier out there that could be considered 'Premium' in terms of quality of service (yeah their are a lot of folks who are Premium based on what they charge)...
One can only hedge one's bet for a quality connection by having multiple providers (you can mix and match) or go with some one like Internap or Tinet (folks who are taking traffic across multiple providers at their POP).
Of course your mileage may vary.... as long as you have alternate connectivity, it makes dealing with issues more palatable, whether it is Cogent or Level3...
Regards. Faisal Imtiaz Snappy Internet& Telecom On 5/14/2012 10:38 PM, Ameen Pishdadi wrote:
No way they stack up against level3 or any of the other 4 big tier 1s but if you throw them in a blend with level3 there shouldn't be any issue and I wouldn't pay more the .75 cents a meg for a gig Thanks, Ameen Pishdadi On May 14, 2012, at 5:03 PM, Jason Baugher<jason () thebaughers com> 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
Current thread:
- Re: Cogent for ISP bandwidth, (continued)
- Re: Cogent for ISP bandwidth Paul WALL (May 14)
- RE: Cogent for ISP bandwidth Scott Berkman (May 15)
- Re: Cogent for ISP bandwidth Jimmy Hess (May 15)
- Re: Cogent for ISP bandwidth Peter Kristolaitis (May 14)
- Re: Cogent for ISP bandwidth Joe Maimon (May 14)
- Re: Cogent for ISP bandwidth Justin Wilson (May 14)
- Re: Cogent for ISP bandwidth Jay Ashworth (May 14)
- Re: Cogent for ISP bandwidth Jason Baugher (May 14)
- Re: Cogent for ISP bandwidth Matthew Palmer (May 14)
- Re: Cogent for ISP bandwidth Jason Baugher (May 14)
- Re: Cogent for ISP bandwidth Ameen Pishdadi (May 14)
- Re: Cogent for ISP bandwidth Faisal Imtiaz (May 14)
- Re: Cogent for ISP bandwidth Ameen Pishdadi (May 14)
- Re: Cogent for ISP bandwidth Faisal Imtiaz (May 15)
- Re: Cogent for ISP bandwidth Jason Baugher (May 15)
- Re: Cogent for ISP bandwidth Ren Provo (May 15)
- Re: Cogent for ISP bandwidth Anurag Bhatia (May 15)
- Re: Cogent for ISP bandwidth Tim Vollebregt (May 15)
- RE: Cogent for ISP bandwidth John van Oppen (May 15)
- RE: Cogent for ISP bandwidth Paul Stewart (May 16)
- Re: Cogent for ISP bandwidth Darius Jahandarie (May 16)
- Re: Cogent for ISP bandwidth PC (May 16)
- Re: Cogent for ISP bandwidth Faisal Imtiaz (May 14)