I've never heard from anyone whose actually ordered the 1Gb/s service and had good or bad things to say about it once it was delivered. Sure, most don't believe in $10/mb/s or have had problems getting services actually installed, but beyond that I am surprised that I have not seen anyone whose bought it because of the price and then complained. Deepak Jain AiNET -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of Dominic J. Eidson Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 8:33 PM To: David E. Weekly Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Cogent Reviews? On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, David E. Weekly wrote:
Are there comparable deals out there, or is Cogent the only one at this price point? Do they have good peering? What kind of latency/throughput does one get over their network? Do they have any customers? Any of you use Cogent?
There's a big caveat with getting the 100Mbit for $1000/month: Cogent's business plan is based on finding large buildings with several/many companies, that all are interested in buying their service. Then, Cogent drops Gig fiber into the basement (or any other convenient dmarc), and hands out 100Mbit feeds from it. They're not really interested in servicing single entities that want "just" 100Mbit. However, they will offer you the whole 1Gbit/sec for $10k/month. :) -- Dominic J. Eidson "Baruk Khazad! Khazad ai-menu!" - Gimli ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- http://www.the-infinite.org/ http://www.the-infinite.org/~dominic/