Tier 1 just means they don't pay for ip transit themselves, only Peering. Doesn't mean that it's good transit. Best provider i've ever used is hurricane electric, actually a tier 2 provider, but bigger/better than many tier 1s.
On 22 January 2018 at 19:07, Martin List-Petersen <mar...@airwire.ie> wrote: > On 22/01/18 20:05, Mike Hammett wrote: > >> I much prefer using WDM transport as opposed to Ethernet\VPLS transport >> due to it being significantly harder (I try not to say impossible) to >> oversubscribe. That said, it isn't always available at a decent rate at a >> given location. >> >> Cogent has a reputation (right or wrong) for running things a little hot. >> >> Have any of you used Cogent Ethernet\VPLS services? What are you >> experiences? Offlist is fine if you don't want it public. >> > > Never use them without a backup alternative. I've seen more outages, that > one would want to ever see from a provider, that would like to be > categorised as Tier1. > > Especially, when some of these are longer than expected, because there > were no cold-spares in the country and the cold-spare needed missed the > flight. > > /M > -- > Airwire Ltd. - Ag Nascadh Pobail an Iarthair > http://www.airwire.ie > Phone: 091-395 000 > Registered Office: Moy, Kinvara, Co. Galway, 091-395 000 - Registered in > Ireland No. 508961 >