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@Francisco
If you can get them to provision the ports. I've been waiting a literal year to provision a port for a friend of mine and I keep getting bullshit responses.
I've actually started answering the Cogent rep emails I get just to have some options available.
Francisco
Let me turn the question a bit to something more interesting (as Cogent obviously seems to be in between unattractive and a, uhm, shitty option).
Which carrier(s) currently offer(s) the most attractive as in "at least quite reasonable quality for an attractive price"? (from 1Gbps to 200Gbps)?
Answers from providers/hosters/(maybe LIRs too) based on professional experience preferred.
Hurricane is cheap if you barter, but they require full port commits. We pay for the entire 100G ports we have, even though we only use maybe 30% - 50% avg each. Doesn't matter, we pay for the whole thing.
Cogent and most others will let you do 95%. Cogent's on the very cheap end even at small commits. I think GTT/1299 will play ball if you're buying enough.
Francisco
How is cogent these days? Are you all seeing packet loss and long routes or is that better now? How is the uptime and have you been affected by peering disputes?
Depends a lot on where you are...
They been struggling a lot here in the Houston Metroplex.
How so exactly?
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ZetServers very great
NTT ,Telia and GTT peers
25 GBs dedicated port speed for 1.100 euros/month
100 GBs dedicated port speed 3.900 euros/month
No 95% procents or other things , just a dedicated port speed
@zetservers
If you ask nicely, they (GTT&Telia) will do 10 on 100G for about $700.
Thats a solid price.
Lots of down time and refusal of SLA credits.
They told me it would be Cogent Direct and my data center would handle the XC.
interesting, I have 2 servers mainly using cogent in dallas and they haven't had any downtime in the past month, wonder if it's just a Houston thing.
I've had a rejection overturned recently by escalating the rejection to management. Not that any credit they issue is going to cover the actual cost of the downtime, but maybe if they have to keep paying them out they will try to get better.
We were quoted £150 for 1GB on a 10GB Port in London or £400 for Flat 10GB
Eh. for us we dropped them (end of contract anyways) and went with who actually owns the fiber. Giving us better routes and more redundancy coming into the facility.