RE: Cogent?

Good luck sending email from Cogent.  The internet community accuses
them of harboring spammers.  The email blacklists make it difficult to
really do anything useful from their ip space.  

For better or for worse, routing policies force traffic off their
network as fast as possible when its destined for another ISP, instead
of routing it as close as possible internally, and then through the
peering.  This puts more expense on "the other guy", whether their path
is better or not.

Cogent to cogent network traffic has been reported as good.  I have
heard rumors of oversubscription, but all the cogent customers I know
say this is not true.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:talk-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Long
> Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 5:20 PM
> To: SeattleWireless Talk List
> Subject: Re: Cogent?
> 
> Ralph Sims wrote:
> > Anyone here directly using Cogent as an upstream or have any recent
info
> on
> > their reliability, routing, etc.?
> 
> You should search the nanog email list. My response is always "it
> depends on what your needs are". Everyone has heard of their peering
> disputes. No sense rehashing it here. Most people wouldn't notice the
> difference between cogent and another upstream though. The question is
> are you "most people" :)
> 
> Mike
> 
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