Cogent (was the poetry thread)

Mon Jan 12 20:05:44 UTC 2009

On Jan 12, 2009, at 2:53 PM, Martin List-Petersen wrote:
> Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
>> On Jan 12, 2009, at 1:17 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote:
>>> Jeffrey Lyon wrote:
>>>> Mike,
>>>> Aside from the occasional peering wars i've never had or  
>>>> witnessed any
>>>> serious issues with Cogent. If you want some redundancy you might  
>>>> also
>>>> try some other similarly priced providers like WBS Connect, HE, or
>>>> BtN.
>>>
>>> (resend due to subject filter)
>>>
>>> Plus if you had direct connectivity to Cogent, their peering  
>>> status with
>>> others wouldn't affect you anymore. Personally, I've seriously
>>> considered this as a reason to get a connection from Cogent.
>>
>> If you are not single-homed, you have no issues reaching Cogent even
>> during a "peering war" - unless Cogent depeers / gets depeered from
>> -both- (all) of your upstreams at the same time.  So what value is  
>> there
>> to add Cogent?
>
> The value is, that Cogent pretty much is the cheapest transit you can
> get out there vs. paying a premium for carriers that have less clue  
> and
> more outages.

Sorry for being imprecise.  I meant that adding Cogent does not  
significantly improve your reachability.  Choosing to buy from Cogent  
because they depeer / get depeered occasionally is silly, IMHO.

To be clear, I am making no comment on Cogent's overall performance.   
If you find value in adding a provider for other reasons (cost,  
performance, etc.), I would not argue against it.

-- 
TTFN,
patrick