Thanks all. Glad feedback is almost all positive. Not glad about that New Orleans experience.
On 9/25/2012 2:30 PM, Gerard Dupont III wrote: > Jim, > > IPv6 is an interesting topic with Cogent. We're receiving >11k routes > from HE, Level3, and TWTC, but only ~8800 from Cogent. Cogent is not > providing full routes on IPv6 because they do not peer with HE. Llast > time I asked they have no plans of doing anything about it. > > I really wouldn't recommend anyone use Cogent as their sole provider. > Cogent only has a single route to/from many of their pops. For example > almost a month ago there was almost a week long outage in the New > Orleans market when their transit provider had a cut. Looking at their > network map shows multiple routes out of New Orleans though. > > Overall I've been very pleased with the performance of their network. > Their support has been very knowledgeable and maintenance requests (ie > prefix updates) have been handled in less than an hour. > > Gerard > > > On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Jim Patient <jpati...@linktechs.net> wrote: >> We are BGP peered with Cogent and HE on IPv6. I just noticed almost 19K >> IPv6 routes now. That table is growing pretty fast. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On >> Behalf Of Justin Wilson >> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 9:30 PM >> To: WISPA General List >> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Cogent? >> >> Great network. Great support. Much better than they were 5 years >> ago. As with any other provider they do have issues from time to time. >> It goes without saying get 2 upstreams and do BGP. >> >> Justin >> >> -- >> Justin Wilson <j...@mtin.net> >> Aol & Yahoo IM: j2sw >> http://www.mtin.net/blog - xISP News >> http://www.twitter.com/j2sw - Follow me on Twitter >> http://www.thebrotherswisp.com >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Adam Greene <maill...@webjogger.net> >> Reply-To: WISPA General List <wireless@wispa.org> >> Date: Monday, September 24, 2012 5:31 PM >> To: WISPA General List <wireless@wispa.org> >> Subject: [WISPA] Cogent? >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Cogent approached us recently, trying to sell us a 100M/100M Internet >>> pipe. Anyone using them for upstream? Has your experience been >>> generally positive or negative? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Adam >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wireless mailing list >>> Wireless@wispa.org >>> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wireless mailing list >> Wireless@wispa.org >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> _______________________________________________ >> Wireless mailing list >> Wireless@wispa.org >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > Wireless@wispa.org > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list Wireless@wispa.org http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
