I have very little issues with Cogent in the Chicago/Indiana/St. Louis areas. They are peered much better than they were a few years ago. We have 1 client at Cermack purchasing Cogent bandwidth through a third party at well under $1 a meg. Justin -- Justin Wilson <j2sw@mtin.net> Aol & Yahoo IM: j2sw http://www.mtin.net/blog xISP News http://www.twitter.com/j2sw Follow me on Twitter -----Original Message----- From: Jason Baugher <jason@thebaughers.com> Date: Monday, May 14, 2012 6:03 PM To: nanog <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Cogent for ISP bandwidth
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