I'm not a cogent customer right now, but they were going to donate some connectivity to a group i volunteer with (www.kidzonline.org), I think I have some technical materials at the office. -ajb On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 05:36:39PM -0700, Matt Levine wrote: -> -> ->-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ->Hash: SHA1 -> ->Well, the network really wasn't lit at the time of the last ->discussion. ->Is anyone on-list a cogent customer? Has anyone done or heard about ->any peering with cogent? If so what type of pipe? -> ->Could they do a lot of damage if some customers start to really push ->traffic? (ie: 30 "big" customers pushing 500 megs each and throwing ->an extra 15gigs/sec onto mae-east). -> -> ->Matt -> -> ->- -----Original Message----- ->From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf ->Of Steve Rude ->Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 4:13 PM ->To: Murphy, Brennan ->Cc: 'nanog@merit.edu' ->Subject: Re: cogentco.com technical analysis? -> -> -> ->I believe that this is a topic that has been brought up before. -> ->http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/2000-12/threads2.html#00175 -> -> ->- ---- ->Steve Rude ->steve@rudedogg.com -> ->On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Murphy, Brennan wrote: -> ->> ->> I was wondering if anyone had any experience with Cogent Inc. They ->> are one of the companies offering high speed internet (fast ->> ethernet/GigE) at rock bottom prices. :-) ->> ->> I know the adage "you get what you pay for" typically applies but I ->> was looking for some concrete end user experiences. I'm not ->> trying to break the charter of this mailing list by devoting a ->> discussion to various emotion based opinions about a particular ->> vendor. I am ->> actually seeking technical opinions on whether what is being ->> advertised is actually being delivered with reliability. More ->> specific questions: do Cogent's peering arrangements seem adequate ->> to the ->> amount of bandwidth they are offering? Or are these major ->> bottlenecks to an otherwise good network? Are any of Cogent's ->> competitors worth taking a look at? Any non-obvious reason why? ->> Does anyone have any statistics to provide that paints a picture ->> about what you get from their products? I guess if enough people ->> complained that this was too off topic, I could still request ->> direct replies and I could put a summary together for any ->> interested parties. But I reread the charter before putting this ->> together and it seems fair game. When is ->> Worldcom, et al going to start offering these products? ( maybe ->> when companies like cogent start succeeding?) Thanks, ->> -BM ->> ->> -> -> ->-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- ->Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> -> ->iQA/AwUBOya1lcp0j1NsDQTPEQJ0iQCgwVlzn5NbcsSZJKnzqZaAyXVoyOAAoIP+ ->r4g+xh7w5/gCKPfHETVzA3W3 ->=SAmy ->-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---end quoted text--- -- Andrew Barros <abarros@tjhsst.edu> PGP Key Fingerprint: D3B8 0800 C45A 143E 5CF0 E112 0A1B AB36 B655 1FB8