Re: Cogent for ISP bandwidth

[Ameen Pishdadi <apishdadi () gmail com>]

No way they stack up against level3 or any of the other 4 big tier 1s but if you throw them in a blend with level3 
there shouldn't be any issue and I wouldn't pay more the .75 cents a meg for a gig 

Thanks,
Ameen Pishdadi


On May 14, 2012, at 5:03 PM, Jason Baugher <jason () thebaughers com> wrote:

> The emails on the Outages list reminded me to ask this question...
>
> I've done some searching and haven't been able to find much in the last 3 years as to their reliability and 
> suitability as an upstream provider. For a regional ISP looking for GigE ports in the Chicago/St. Louis area, is 
> Cogent a reasonable solution? Our gut feeling is that they don't stack up against a Level3 or Sprint, but they are 
> being very aggressive with pricing to try and get our business.
>
> Thanks,
> Jason