Re: Cogent for ISP bandwidth

[Matthew Palmer <mpalmer () hezmatt org>]

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 09:27:57PM -0500, Jason Baugher wrote:
> On 5/14/2012 7:30 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Jason Baugher"<jason () thebaughers com>
> > > 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.
> > Really?  That surprises me; people complain about Cogent on here, roughly,
> > weekly.  :-)
>
> Sorry, been on this list for quite some time, and I even went back
> to the archives. I don't see much there that is specific to Cogent
> doing a bad job. If I go back a few years, I find stuff about
> Cogent-Telia, Cogent-GBX, and even Cogent-HE IPv6 peering.

So when you play "What's the common factor?", you get... ?  <grin>

We decided not to use Cogent as one of the suppliers for a recent PoP
deployment because of these sorts of games -- it's not that we'd get caught
in them (we've got three providers), but we just don't want to reward that
sort of behaviour with our money.

- Matt