Cogent for ISP bandwidth

Tue May 15 03:49:23 UTC 2012

I often tell folks, Cogent is the 'Heidi Fleiss' of the industry ...... 
pretty much everyone of the major carriers / providers deal with them.. 
but no one wants to admit it.

I don't think there is any carrier out there that could be considered 
'Premium' in terms of quality of service (yeah their are a lot of folks 
who are Premium based on what they charge)...

One can only hedge one's bet for a quality connection by having multiple 
providers (you can mix and match) or go with some one like Internap or 
Tinet (folks who are taking traffic across multiple providers at their POP).

Of course your mileage may vary.... as long as you have alternate 
connectivity, it makes dealing with issues more palatable, whether it is 
Cogent or Level3...

Regards.

Faisal Imtiaz
Snappy Internet&  Telecom

On 5/14/2012 10:38 PM, Ameen Pishdadi wrote:
> No way they stack up against level3 or any of the other 4 big tier 1s but if you throw them in a blend with level3 there shouldn't be any issue and I wouldn't pay more the .75 cents a meg for a gig
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> Thanks,
> Ameen Pishdadi
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> On May 14, 2012, at 5:03 PM, Jason Baugher<jason at thebaughers.com>  wrote:
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>> The emails on the Outages list reminded me to ask this question...
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>> 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.
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>> Thanks,
>> Jason
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