Todd, I once had that same question. I bought FastE from Cogent almost a year ago for out of band management of our production gear. But, I put up a couple of old Celerons running Smokeping up, pinging the same 37 remote networks. One server on Cogent, and one on our colo providers super-wicked-premium-route-science network. Before I started this experiment, I had a very low opinion of Cogent. Since then I have been absolutely happy with them. You will note that if you look at the same graphs between on the two, the super-jam-route-science network is only a very slight bit faster and in some cases it is not. Cogent support is surprisingly good. A person who can resolve you issue is the person who answers the phone. You are not transferred 9 times to get the the right person. There is no eternal hold. I can't answer any questions regarding BGP with them as we are not doing BGP with them yet. This is scheduled, however. Ask me again in a few months. If you question is regarding ping times, then here is the evidence: Smoke1 is on the Colo's "blended" network: http://smoke1.m5hosting.com/cgi-bin/smokeping.cgi?target=World.USA.FaceBook Smoke2 is single FastE to Cogent only. No redundancy: http://smoke2.m5hosting.com/cgi-bin/smokeping.cgi?target=World.USA.FaceBook Can't use them as a single provider though. They have those peering fights and periodic maintenance. If you need 99.999% then you need to have more than one carrier anyway. Cheers, Mike On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 09:06 -0700, TS Glassey wrote:
So at one time Cogent was one of the lowest performing bandwidth providers. Anyone have any responses to their current operations?
regards, Todd Glassey CISM CIFI Chief Scientist/Founder - Certichron Inc TGlassey@Wireless-Time.COM 650-796-8178
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