<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'>Agreed. A couple IXes, Cogent, HE, and a couple others. Add more IXes and others as needed. Eyeballs should be fine with the above.<br><br><div><span name="x"></span><br><br>-----<br>Mike Hammett<br>Intelligent Computing Solutions<br>http://www.ics-il.com<br><br>Midwest-IX<br>http://www.midwest-ix.com<span name="x"></span><br></div><br><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Daniel Corbe" <dcorbe@hammerfiber.com><br><b>To: </b>"DaKnOb" <daknob.mac@gmail.com><br><b>Cc: </b>"NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, October 16, 2018 10:44:10 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: Whats going on at Cogent<br><br>at 11:34 AM, DaKnOb <daknob.mac@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br>> I guess people really don’t like Cogent judging by the fact that one <br>> unrelated email caused all this to happen again.. :-)<br><br>Cogent have more pain points on average but they’re still the best option <br>for getting to other Cogent customers. It’s not really hard to design <br>around their shortcomings. I’d rather have 30 small links and be <br>well-connected than two large ones and be SOL because someone refuses to <br>peer.<br><br>I can’t speak to their MPLS service, because cogent’s the last company I’d <br>ever trust with my backbone.<br><br><br><br></div><br></div></body></html>