Re: Cogent (was the poetry thread)

2009-01-12 Thread Jeffrey Lyon
Patrick, I'd contend that using Cogent is a good way to reduce your cost of doing business while maintaining an acceptable level of service, not to necessarily improve reach. If your network absolutely must have the best routes you may be better off adding some other providers regardless. Best re

Re: Cogent (was the poetry thread)

2009-01-12 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 12, 2009, at 2:53 PM, Martin List-Petersen wrote: Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Jan 12, 2009, at 1:17 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote: Jeffrey Lyon wrote: Mike, Aside from the occasional peering wars i've never had or witnessed any serious issues with Cogent. If you want some redundancy you mi

Re: Cogent (was the poetry thread)

2009-01-12 Thread Martin List-Petersen
Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > On Jan 12, 2009, at 1:17 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote: >> Jeffrey Lyon wrote: >>> Mike, >>> Aside from the occasional peering wars i've never had or witnessed any >>> serious issues with Cogent. If you want some redundancy you might also >>> try some other similarly priced pr

Re: Cogent (was the poetry thread)

2009-01-12 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 12, 2009, at 2:47 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Jan 12, 2009, at 1:17 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote: Jeffrey Lyon wrote: Mike, Aside from the occasional peering wars i've never had or witnessed any serious issues with Cogent. If you want some redundancy you might also try some other si

Re: Cogent (was the poetry thread)

2009-01-12 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 12, 2009, at 1:17 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote: Jeffrey Lyon wrote: Mike, Aside from the occasional peering wars i've never had or witnessed any serious issues with Cogent. If you want some redundancy you might also try some other similarly priced providers like WBS Connect, HE, or BtN.

Re: Cogent (was the poetry thread)

2009-01-12 Thread Seth Mattinen
joe mcguckin wrote: So, you're essentially getting paid peering from Cogent then ? I guess you could do that. Normally I'd just throw it in the mix with the rest and let BGP figure it out if there's another depeering. ~Seth

Re: Cogent (was the poetry thread)

2009-01-12 Thread joe mcguckin
So, you're essentially getting paid peering from Cogent then ? Joe McGuckin ViaNet Communications j...@via.net 650-207-0372 cell 650-213-1302 office 650-969-2124 fax On Jan 12, 2009, at 10:17 AM, Seth Mattinen wrote: Jeffrey Lyon wrote: Mike, Aside from the occasional peering wars i've ne

Cogent (was the poetry thread)

2009-01-12 Thread Seth Mattinen
Jeffrey Lyon wrote: Mike, Aside from the occasional peering wars i've never had or witnessed any serious issues with Cogent. If you want some redundancy you might also try some other similarly priced providers like WBS Connect, HE, or BtN. (resend due to subject filter) Plus if you had direc