Charter Reorganization Gets Ugly > This could get interest

reply to hottboiinnc

Re: This could get interest

Cogent is in the same buildings as others. You should go search it out before knocking them. And it's not their fault they compete on dollar where ATT and VZ won't and charge a prem. for services. Hell I can get a Qwest T1 cheaper than going direct. And that's sad. Price is everything. Not provider.

On the whole datacenter thing, the burden of proof is on you since you mentioned cheap bandwidth in STL. Might be, but you mentioned it

As far as Cogent pricing goes, the problem is with sites that aren't right on their network. Cogent peering points are few and far between, so you might have to take a circuitous route to get to a given website. Additionally, in some cases you can get Level3 cheaper than Cogent, and L3 has a vastly superior network.

I have bought a few virtual private servers. One is on a Cogent-only connection. Others use a combination of networks that includes Comcast. One uses Level3 as a main carrier. Guess which one has the slowest connection to most sites?

Price isn't everything, otherwise everyone would be on Cogent. Then again, Cogent ain't the cheapest anymore in many locations. Check out iptelligent.com. Problem: nothing in STL.

»www.isp-planet.com/img/backbones···kMap.jpg

Cogent may not be the cheapest(do not know) but they are definitely in St. Louis.

»www.cogentco.com/us/network_pops.php

I noticed that. I apparently need to take a quick geography course from my thirteen-year-old brother; I was looking in the wrong place for St. Louis (KC and STL are on opposite sides of the state, who knew) and thus missed the fact that there's Cogent fiber running right through town.