Cogentco + Level 3 Vs He.NET, which one is better?

tjn

Did you just necro a 10 yr old thread?!

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jbiloh

@sandoz said:
I know this is a old thread. But any updates?

Cogentco or HE? For Europe => US and US => EU?

Does anyone have feedback from this?

Core-backbone any feedback? Expensive?
IPVolume?
NTT
RETN?

Yeah a lot has changed in the IP transit market in 10 years.

Cogent has improved their network significantly.

While you still would not want to single pipe to any one provider, a mix of Cogent + X is perfectly fine these days.

I have experience with a mix of GTT + Telia + Cogent which worked very well.

dataforest

@sandoz said:
I know this is a old thread. But any updates?

Cogentco or HE? For Europe => US and US => EU?

Does anyone have feedback from this?

Core-backbone any feedback? Expensive?
IPVolume?
NTT
RETN?

Core-backbone any feedback? Expensive?

Had a lot of problems during the Corona time, but it is much better now. Not quite cheap, but also high quality.

IPVolume?

I do not know

NTT

I can recommend

RETN?

Can't recommend, we have RETN currently (still) active, many PNIs are overloaded like to Versatel, Elisa Oj or also Vodafone and much much more. The NOC was sometimes unavailable in an emergency (tried under different numbers). In the case of an overload, there is not even another route in many cases, the only thing that comes is that you would look at it soon.

Cogent

Cogent has been extremely annoying. A colleague had Cogent in routing and was not very happy with it 1-2 years ago. Whether this is still the case I can not say

DataIdeas-Josh

@zhuanyi said:
I have two VPS servers right now that I am thinking of putting sites on, I am not sure how much it would matter, but it is using Cogentco + Level 3 by doing a traceroute from my own computer, while the other one is using mostly HE.NET.

I am just curious which one you would consider as a "better" route? Both servers are in US.

How about Both?
Come join us in TXNet on our Lumen/Cogent blended network!
https://bgp.tools/as/398355

sandoz

@DataIdeas-Josh said:

@zhuanyi said:
I have two VPS servers right now that I am thinking of putting sites on, I am not sure how much it would matter, but it is using Cogentco + Level 3 by doing a traceroute from my own computer, while the other one is using mostly HE.NET.

I am just curious which one you would consider as a "better" route? Both servers are in US.

How about Both?
Come join us in TXNet on our Lumen/Cogent blended network!
https://bgp.tools/as/398355

This thread is old. But thanks.

@PHP_Friends said:

@sandoz said:
I know this is a old thread. But any updates?

Cogentco or HE? For Europe => US and US => EU?

Does anyone have feedback from this?

Core-backbone any feedback? Expensive?
IPVolume?
NTT
RETN?

Core-backbone any feedback? Expensive?

Had a lot of problems during the Corona time, but it is much better now. Not quite cheap, but also high quality.

IPVolume?

I do not know

NTT

I can recommend

RETN?

Can't recommend, we have RETN currently (still) active, many PNIs are overloaded like to Versatel, Elisa Oj or also Vodafone and much much more. The NOC was sometimes unavailable in an emergency (tried under different numbers). In the case of an overload, there is not even another route in many cases, the only thing that comes is that you would look at it soon.

Cogent

Cogent has been extremely annoying. A colleague had Cogent in routing and was not very happy with it 1-2 years ago. Whether this is still the case I can not say

Wooow good post. Great info
Thanks

@tjn said:
Did you just necro a 10 yr old thread?!

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Opening a new thread should change anything? Nope.

sots

Level 3 is global rank 1 provider, while HE isn't a tier 1 provider (according to Wikipedia).

nanankcornering

HE in APAC.. ;-(

Shakib

Level 3 gets me better ping at least.

c1vhosting

@sandoz said: Cogentco or HE? For Europe => US and US => EU?

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Maybe Cogent for something EU<->US.
But there are many carriers with better performances, such as NTT.