+1 here. Some would say if you are of a certain size, you almost NEED to have a Cogent connection amongst others for when they have their spats. If you are missing the history here, check out this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogent_Communications#Peering -Scott -----Original Message----- From: Paul WALL [mailto:pauldotwall@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 6:58 PM To: Michael J McCafferty Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Cogent for ISP bandwidth Cogent is really better suited as a tertiary provider. Not a bad option, but you don't want to lose redundancy when they get involved in their peering dispute or de-peering du jour. Drive Slow, Paul Wall On 5/14/12, Michael J McCafferty <mike@m5computersecurity.com> wrote:
Jason,
I agree with John. You can't use them as your only provider, but you wouldn't do that with *any* provider. I will add that they answer the phone quickly, and the person who answers usually has a clue, has access to the routers, and can be helpful. It's one of the benefits that they really only sell one product. Honestly, I think their support is better than most and the deliver what they say or better.
In the past the had a A peer / B peer setup that was a little funky, but I think they are getting rid of that as they upgrade hardware throughout their network.
We do also use Level3 (and others). As long as they come in to your facility on different fiber or otherwise meet you physical diversity requirements, you should be pretty happy. Add low commits to other providers for more diversity as needed.
Good luck, Mike
On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 15:12 -0700, John T. Yocum wrote:
In my experience Cogent is fine when used in a BGP mix. When we used them, our service was quite reliable. Routing was funky at times, but we never had packet loss.
--John
On 5/14/2012 3:03 PM, Jason Baugher wrote:
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
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