I'm not sure the cheapest, but Hurricane Electric is the leading,
lower cost provider.
Cogent is now $4, IIRC. HE can be had for under $1 on GigE.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
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On 9/10/2010 12:54 PM, Jim Patient wrote:
So who is the cheapest these days? Cogent is $600/mth for 100/100.
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On 9/10/2010 12:25 PM, Mike Hammett wrote:
I believe i saw an article a few months ago that said Cogent was now
settlement free. Not sure how accurate that was, though.
The thing is, though, Cogent isn't even the cheapest you can get in
major metros anymore.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
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On 9/10/2010 11:56 AM, Justin Wilson wrote:
Cogent is the Family Dollar/Dollar General/$1 store of bandwidth
providers. It's cheap, they have a decent network and have quite a
number of servers on Cogent bandwidth. This means a good deal of
web traffic is headed toward cogent without much return. The Big
players tolerate this because the last time they tried de-peering it
took out half the internet (not really but caused some waves). I
remember this because I had 400 web-sites on some cogent servers.
All of a sudden a good majority of my customers at the time could
not get to their own web-sites.
It's a pretty decent business plan actually. Offer cheap
bandwidth for servers, get a bunch of sites hosted on that
bandwidth, and the Internet finds you. From that point on the Tier
1 and others are almost forced to peer with you.
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*From: *Nick Olsen <n...@brevardwireless.com>
*Reply-To: *<n...@brevardwireless.com>, WISPA General List
<wireless@wispa.org>
*Date: *Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:01:48 -0400
*To: *WISPA General List <wireless@wispa.org>
*Subject: *Re: [WISPA] Cogent in St. Louis
Can't speak for Cogent in St. Louis, But we have it here in Florida
and it works well. The 2 peer setup is a bit weird at first, but it
works. The support is good, You get a engineer on first call. Not
like TW Telecom where you call open a ticket and get a call back,
The person that answers the phone can make changes and such.
Nick Olsen
Network Operations
(877) 804-3001 x106
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*From*: "Mike Hammett" <wispawirel...@ics-il.net>
*Sent*: Friday, September 10, 2010 11:47 AM
*To*: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
*Subject*: Re: [WISPA] Cogent in St. Louis
That is certainly always a concern, but their number of peers is
increasing tremendously.
http://www.fixedorbit.com/stats.htm
They're the 9th largest in terms of IP space and 2nd largest in
terms of peered networks.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
On 9/10/2010 10:17 AM, David E. Smith wrote:
I can't speak to Cogent in Saint Louis specifically, but be
aware that Cogent has a bit of a history with peering disputes,
and occasionally cuts off (or is cut off from) largish chunks of
the Internet. I don't know if I'd want to single-home to Cogent,
but as part of a robust multi-homed solution, sure.
David Smith
MVN.net
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