Re: Whats going on at Cogent

2018-10-21 Thread Ross Tajvar
Bear in mind that many orgs will prefer their cheapest link for outbound, and I'm pretty sure HE is cheaper than Cogent. Someone else's outbound traffic going through HE means your inbound traffic coming through HE. On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 1:19 PM, Mike Hammett wrote: > I didn't explicitly refer

Re: Whats going on at Cogent

2018-10-21 Thread Mike Hammett
I didn't explicitly refer to outbound routing in my post, but maybe this is a tangent. The outbound routing is a major factor in CDNs like Cloudflare that are anycasted and serve from the same node the request is received on. For other CDNs, your outbound routing strategy will have a lesser i

Re: Whats going on at Cogent

2018-10-21 Thread Aaron1
If he only uses a default route then his outbound routing won’t have anything to do with what destinations are closer, etc Aaron > On Oct 21, 2018, at 7:39 AM, Mike Hammett wrote: > > I guess first thing's first... you aren't doing anything to force the > traffic that way, are you? > > If y

Re: Whats going on at Cogent

2018-10-21 Thread Josh Luthman
Portal takes a good long time for me to log in (I just got a circuit in the last week) but after ~30 seconds to log in, it seems pretty responsive. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 10:54 PM, Jason Canady wrote

Re: Whats going on at Cogent

2018-10-21 Thread Mike Hammett
I guess first thing's first... you aren't doing anything to force the traffic that way, are you? If you've got IPv6 deployed, chances are that no Google will be coming over that Cogent. :-) CAIDA says Cogent is bigger. http://as-rank.caida.org/asns/174/as-core http://as-rank.caida.org/asns

Re: Whats going on at Cogent

2018-10-21 Thread Baldur Norddahl
Is he.net smaller than Cogent? Over the past 24 hours we had 6.7 Gbps peak from our HE link and 336 Mbps peak from our Cogent link. This is inbound traffic. We are eyeballs and our outbound is a small fraction of our inbound. Regards. Baldur On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 4:17 PM Dovid Bender wrote: