Cogent for ISP bandwidth

[jkrejci at usinternet.com (Justin Krejci)]

+1 for cogent, problem free and good responsive support.

Not sure why "don't use only 1 upstream if you care about accessibility" has anything to do with cogent specifically. Are peering/de-peering disputes more likely to occur than all other network/routing issues combined? its just another possible cause for an outage.



------Original Message------
From: Mark Stevens
To: nanog at nanog.org
ReplyTo: manager at monmouth.com
Subject: Re: Cogent for ISP bandwidth
Sent: May 15, 2012 7:21 AM

We use Cogent as one our upstreams and have had nothing but stability 
and excellent support over the years. But as other said, you really need 
multiple upstreams and cannot rely just on one whether it is Cogent or 
any other provider.


Mark

On 5/14/2012 6:03 PM, Jason Baugher wrote:
> The emails on the Outages list reminded me to ask this question...
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> 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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