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Old 2003-11-05, 11:58 PM   #1
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cogent bandwidth?

it read many people saying that cogent bandwidth is shitty...what do you think?
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Old 2003-11-06, 03:30 AM   #2
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I have cogent, works fine for me.
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Old 2003-11-06, 05:50 AM   #3
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hello

well cogent is supposed to be the 'cheap' one, i dont know the EXACT reasons why ppl said it's shitty, but from our hosting experience, i can say we never got it, and usually ISPs sell that one cheaper.

if you're looking for a good host, i reccommend Oxeo

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Old 2003-11-06, 02:36 PM   #4
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Old 2003-11-06, 05:46 PM   #5
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Maybe I can help a bit.....

Cogent has built a network designed to offer a low cost solution to companies that need bandwidth. They purchased a couple of providers early on to gain peering arrangements and transit arrangements so that they could provide connectivity to the world. Just remember their number one priority is cost.

With that said, however, the Cogent network has been pretty stable over the past couple of years. Very few outages. But using their system of "hot potato" routing, it is most cost effective to get your traffic off of their network as soon as possible, even if the carrier that they are handing it off to is not the best route available. In addition, their peering relationships are usually always strained. How many people remember when AOL pulled their peering from Cogent back about 6-8 months ago? There was a 3 day window when Cogent could not get *any* traffic to AOL and another 6 weeks where it was overloading thier Level3 peering point to an extreme and made it excruciatingly slow.....but the network never went down.

So....to sum it up....if you are looking for high quality, fast, and low latency hosting (ie paysites, reseller sites) I would stay away from Cogent. If the quality is not that important to you (ie Free Hosting, spam) then Cogent will probably do you just fine.

Hope this helps!


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Old 2003-11-09, 04:52 AM   #6
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Old 2003-11-11, 12:13 AM   #7
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Yea, what Tony said

If you run pay sites or anything mission critical, I would highly recommend going with network that has redundant high quality providers.

If you just need cheap and its for galleries, movies (static content) then cogent is about the cheapest you can get and it will get the job done.

We use both and each server a purpose. Just depends on your needs
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