Followup: we did the quote/PO/sign-the-order dance. That took about 3-4 days not including our side's lag (which was not insignificant, Im not the guy with the pen). But now it's gone to provisioning and will be a standard *5 days*.
Cogent will do this in about 1-6 hours if you provide the LOA's with the request. So will HE. And many others. /kc On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 02:28:50PM -0400, Ken Chase said: >I feel this can be a public topic: > >Rogers just charged us that for an update (one update, multiple entries). >We had to go through their quotation machinery too, took like 4-5 days. Additional >time was wasted because we contacted their tech dept directly at the start. (which >is what I do for all my other upstreams...) > >Kinda brutal. > >Cogent and HE nor NAC or Yipes or Tata ever did that to us. > >Nickle and diming -- why, cuz transit is a cheap commodity now, gotta make the >cash somewhere? > >That said Cogent offered us a static /26 along side our BGP years ago then warned >us it'd be $50/mo or something for that # of ips going forward. We didnt need it >so dispensed with it. > >/kc > > >On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 02:07:01PM -0400, Jason Lixfeld said: > >If there are any ISPs who use TELUS/AS852 for IP Transit over BGP, I???d be interested in hearing from you. > > > >I???d like to compare notes to see if you are also paying $250 for each BGP prefix filter updated request, or if we???re the only ones??? > > > >Thanks in advance! > >-- >Ken Chase - [email protected] Toronto Canada
