RE: Cogent

"John van Oppen \(list account\)" <john-lists-/NiB0zgM6C1Wk0Htik3J/[email protected]>
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I have had similar experiences, it took escalations to get normal things
done that our other upstreams would have done with no issue.   We are
immune to their peering issues though as they are one of five providers
in our case so when they get in peering fights we would not notice same
with when they take two days to update route filters (since they don't
use any irr even though our other providers all support it).

John van Oppen
Spectrum Networks LLC
206.973.8302 (Direct)
206.973.8300 (main office)


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of Jawaid Bazyar
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 4:57 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Cogent

Yes, it's cheap. However, last time I had a customer service issue with 
them their response was, and I quote, "Well, we ARE a cheap bandwidth 
provider, we just don't do all the things other companies do."

This was after they refused to block a DDOS attack targeted to us. I 
ended up having to re-route the affected block through another provider 
who would filter.

I would only consider using them as a backup.


Jeff Koch wrote:
>
> Hi All:
>
> We're considering purchasing some IP connectivity from Cogent. I know 
> they had some problems with Level 3 back in 2003 and with Telias in 
> Norway two years ago but their pricing within New York City is very 
> reasonable (did I say cheap). Any comments or thoughts about Cogent - 
> latency, reliability, dependability, peering relationships, etc.? 
> There's not much on the net about them these days.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Jeff Koch, Intersessions

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