Brad Belton wrote: > Hello Bret, > > You missed the point about the biggest proponents of Cogent are those that > only have Cogent....<silence>... > We prepend our other peers, because Cogent has been the most stable and latency/jitter the lowest. So I don't get you point... > I'm not a Cogent basher as we have a Cogent GigE feed too and at times have > depended on it, but I among many, many others do not consider Cogent as an > equal to a variety of other providers. I'm not making this up it's just a > well known fact. ' > But you are bashing them. Besides they all have their skeletons and I've been involved with many of them on those skeletons. Recently had to stop announcing routes to AT&T because of continuous route flaps. Try to get a hold of someone at AT&T who has 1/2 clue. > Cogent gets "de-peered" with others on a far more frequent basis than any > other "major" provider. Just Google "cogent depeered" vs. "abovenet > depeered" or "level3 depeered". There is no comparison. > Does this fall into the category of "If its on the Internet is must be true"? :). I won't disagree that Cogent seems to get depeered more often recently with Sprint last year, but if Cogent is taking business away from the other tier providers, I could see some of them trying to flex their muscles by pulling the depeering card.
But I guess if you want to bash Cogent, I haven't been happy with how they are handling IP6 right now. > So, what are you going to do when your customers are calling asking why they > can't get to a particular site? All because you're caught up in some > pissing match between carriers. I know our clients don't care what the > reason is, they are more interested in what we're going to do to fix it. If > Cogent is all you got then you're SOL! > Regardless of our point of views, if you anyone is going to offer Internet services to customers, you should never have just one upstream connection. Additionally I find too many people have opinions of a provider based on there personal experience in a particular region. Cogent works great out of the Boston NAP and I know numerous other providers who would state the same. Maybe in you location that's not true. Bret -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
