I think it'll depend on your target customer. Residential eyeball? Being on an IX is more important at nearly any size than which transit you choose. Even a good-sized residential eyeball (say 10k and up subs) can be good with Cogent\IX\one other transit.

Hosting and enterprise-focused ISPs will need to diversify their transit providers more.

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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions

Midwest Internet Exchange

The Brothers WISP

From: "Mehmet Akcin" <mehmet@akcin.net>
To: "nanog" <nanog@nanog.org>
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2018 9:21:59 AM
Subject: How to choose a transit provider?

Hello there,

I have started writing a blog which I hope it would help buy transit services from providers by doing various due diligences(technical) i wanted to reach out and ask nanog community’s thoughts on this.

What are some of your checklist items ? Price? Their directly peered networks? If they are tier 2,3 who they use as tier 1-2? Are the onnet? I am sure list goes on and on on...

Thanks a lot for your help. I plan to write the blog this month and publish.

Mehmet

Mehmet
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