RE: Cogent revisited

2015-08-17 Thread Matthew Huff
t: Re: Cogent revisited On Wed, 12 Aug 2015, James Bensley wrote: > Perhaps that depends on were are you in the world and your traffic types. > > I have worked with two UK ISPs that have Cogent as one of their > transit providers, neither have had any problems in the 5+ years >

Re: Cogent revisited

2015-08-16 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Wed, 12 Aug 2015, James Bensley wrote: Perhaps that depends on were are you in the world and your traffic types. I have worked with two UK ISPs that have Cogent as one of their transit providers, neither have had any problems in the 5+ years they've both had the Cogent transit, it has always

Re: Cogent revisited

2015-08-12 Thread James Bensley
On 11 August 2015 at 21:47, Adam Greene wrote: Perhaps that depends on were are you in the world and your traffic types. I have worked with two UK ISPs that have Cogent as one of their transit providers, neither have had any problems in the 5+ years they've both had the Cogent transit, it has al

Re: Cogent revisited

2015-08-11 Thread Mark Tinka
On 11/Aug/15 16:00, Adam Greene wrote: > > > Have opinions changed since then? Or is Cogent still the "budget alternative > to have in your mix, but better to stay away from if you need > high-performance, reliable, mostly standalone bandwidth" (which is how I > would summarize the consensus in

RE: Cogent revisited

2015-08-11 Thread Adam Greene
Thank you to those who replied off-list, for the helpful replies! The feedback basically ranged from neutral (maybe a little positive) to really negative. The main emphasis being on: use them only if you are redundant. Seems like things haven’t changed much since 2012. Thanks! On