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From: Jim Patient <[email protected]> Reply-To: WISPA General List <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:54:03 -0500 To: WISPA General List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Cogent in St. Louis So who is the cheapest these days? Cogent is $600/mth for 100/100. Jim Patient Cell: 314-565-6863 Desk: 636-692-4200 YIM: jeffcosoho www.wlan1.com <http://www.wlan1.com> www.linktechs.net <http://www.linktechs.net> www.wifimidwest.com <http://www.wifimidwest.com> 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. > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > > On 9/10/2010 11:56 AM, Justin Wilson wrote: >> Re: [WISPA] Cogent in St. Louis Cogent is the Family Dollar/Dollar >> General/$1 store of bandwidth providers. It¹s 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. >> >> It¹s 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. >> -- >> Justin Wilson <[email protected]> >> http://www.mtin.net/blog xISP News >> http://www.twitter.com/j2sw Follow me on Twitter >> Wisp Consulting Tower Climbing Network Support >> >> >> >> >> >> From: Nick Olsen <[email protected]> >> Reply-To: <[email protected]>, WISPA General List >> <[email protected]> >> Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:01:48 -0400 >> To: WISPA General List <[email protected]> >> 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 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> From: "Mike Hammett" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 11:47 AM >> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> >> 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. >> ----- >> 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. 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