Cogent for ISP bandwidth

Mon May 14 22:33:26 UTC 2012

	I have very little issues with Cogent in the Chicago/Indiana/St. Louis
areas. They are peered much better than they were a few years ago.

	We have 1 client at Cermack purchasing Cogent bandwidth through a third
party at well under $1 a meg.

	Justin


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-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Baugher <jason at thebaughers.com>
Date: Monday, May 14, 2012 6:03 PM
To: nanog <nanog at nanog.org>
Subject: Cogent for ISP bandwidth

>The emails on the Outages list reminded me to ask this question...
>
>I've done some searching and haven't been able to find much in the last
>3 years as to their reliability and suitability as an upstream provider.
>For a regional ISP looking for GigE ports in the Chicago/St. Louis area,
>is Cogent a reasonable solution? Our gut feeling is that they don't
>stack up against a Level3 or Sprint, but they are being very aggressive
>with pricing to try and get our business.
>
>Thanks,
>Jason
>