Whats going on at Cogent

Tue Oct 16 23:51:16 UTC 2018

Oh that's disturbing . We just signed up a few months ago for a circuit 
at an MMR and are still waiting for delivery.

Matt.

On 17/10/18 10:23 am, Ben Cannon wrote:
> Oh how funny I’m working on a billing issue with them for a circuit they turned up but didn’t connect to the MMR for 2 months...
>
>
> -Ben
>
>> On Oct 16, 2018, at 3:20 PM, Matt Erculiani <merculiani at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Speaking of Cogent service (and I know you guys are watching), I'd love
>> to get someone's help off-list turning up a p2p that has been moved to
>> billing despite being told loud and clear it doesn't work. I
>> half-expected it to not work when I found out there was a type 2
>> provider involved, but I definitely did not expect to be billed for
>> it...
>>
>> -Matt
>>> On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 12:09 PM Mike Hammett <nanog at ics-il.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Agreed. A couple IXes, Cogent, HE, and a couple others. Add more IXes and others as needed. Eyeballs should be fine with the above.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----
>>> Mike Hammett
>>> Intelligent Computing Solutions
>>> http://www.ics-il.com
>>>
>>> Midwest-IX
>>> http://www.midwest-ix.com
>>>
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: "Daniel Corbe" <dcorbe at hammerfiber.com>
>>> To: "DaKnOb" <daknob.mac at gmail.com>
>>> Cc: "NANOG" <nanog at nanog.org>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2018 10:44:10 AM
>>> Subject: Re: Whats going on at Cogent
>>>
>>> at 11:34 AM, DaKnOb <daknob.mac at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I guess people really don’t like Cogent judging by the fact that one
>>>> unrelated email caused all this to happen again.. :-)
>>> Cogent have more pain points on average but they’re still the best option
>>> for getting to other Cogent customers.  It’s not really hard to design
>>> around their shortcomings.   I’d rather have 30 small links and be
>>> well-connected than two large ones and be SOL because someone refuses to
>>> peer.
>>>
>>> I can’t speak to their MPLS service, because cogent’s the last company I’d
>>> ever trust with my backbone.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>

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