RE: Cogent revisited

2015-08-17 Thread Matthew Huff
: Cogent revisited On Wed, 12 Aug 2015, James Bensley wrote: Perhaps that depends on were are you in the world and your traffic types. I have worked with two UK ISPs that have Cogent as one of their transit providers, neither have had any problems in the 5+ years they've both had the Cogent

Re: Cogent revisited

2015-08-16 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Wed, 12 Aug 2015, James Bensley wrote: Perhaps that depends on were are you in the world and your traffic types. I have worked with two UK ISPs that have Cogent as one of their transit providers, neither have had any problems in the 5+ years they've both had the Cogent transit, it has

Re: Cogent revisited

2015-08-12 Thread Mark Tinka
On 11/Aug/15 16:00, Adam Greene wrote: Have opinions changed since then? Or is Cogent still the budget alternative to have in your mix, but better to stay away from if you need high-performance, reliable, mostly standalone bandwidth (which is how I would summarize the consensus in 2012)?

Re: Cogent revisited

2015-08-12 Thread James Bensley
On 11 August 2015 at 21:47, Adam Greene maill...@webjogger.net wrote: Perhaps that depends on were are you in the world and your traffic types. I have worked with two UK ISPs that have Cogent as one of their transit providers, neither have had any problems in the 5+ years they've both had the

Cogent revisited

2015-08-11 Thread Adam Greene
Hi all, We are getting ready to renew our fiber contract with our incumbent provider (Lightower, ASN 46887). We are happy with them, but are looking for alternatives. At the location in question we need about 200M. Cogent recently contacted us, and I shied away a bit, based on this

RE: Cogent revisited

2015-08-11 Thread Adam Greene
Thank you to those who replied off-list, for the helpful replies! The feedback basically ranged from neutral (maybe a little positive) to really negative. The main emphasis being on: use them only if you are redundant. Seems like things haven’t changed much since 2012. Thanks!