On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 12:06 PM, TS Glassey <tglassey@earthlink.net> wrote:
So at one time Cogent was one of the lowest performing bandwidth providers. Anyone have any responses to their current operations?
They got into a spat with Telia a few months back. Severed those portions of the Internet that they serve from each other for about a week, disrupting all customers who depended on them exclusively. Similar situation with Cogent and Level 3 a couple years ago. I wouldn't count on it not to happen again. They're dirt cheap. If you have an ability to control the routing of your non-interactive traffic (such as email and downloads), Cogent can save you big bucks. If you have three upstreams and one of them isn't Cogent, you may be missing a trick. I don't think I'd pick them as my #1 or #2. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William D. Herrin ................ herrin@dirtside.com bill@herrin.us 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004