Re: Cogent $1500 GigE

["Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>]

On Dec 15, 2009, at 3:53 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote:
> Babak Pasdar wrote:
> > Dear List,
> > I am getting a big push from Cogent on their full GigE for $1.50 per circuit.  What are your experiences with Cogent 
> > in general?  If on the fence, how would you use their service for this deal to make sense?
>
> $1.50 per meg. ;) I'd probably take it just because I could at that price. The downsides with Cogent is that they 
> occasionally get into peering spats that might hurt you if you aren't multihomed, and no usable IPv6 (if that matters 
> to you). I hadn't looked into it any further because I'm not located anywhere Cogent is to give it a serious look.

I'm pretty sure the system at $DAY_JOB is better at pushing bits near, but not quite over, the hard limit of a link 
than any other out there.  And I am dead certain I could not get 1000 Mbps out of a GigE without serious packet loss.

Even assuming 900 Mbps (good luck), you're at $1.66/Mbps.  Most people do 50%, so that would be $3/Mbps.  Still 
probably a good price for 500 Mbps.  But how much OpEx do you have to spend to ensure that link stays below 1 Gbps 
24/7/365?

And if you only have 100 Mbps, though, it doesn't look so good.

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TTFN,
patrick