I have noting but good things to say about cogent. I've been with many hosts in the past 4 years in this biz and so far the best I had/have is swiftwill which uses cogent as a primary pipe. I've been with them for a year now and never had a downtime at all or any major problems due to cogent connection or them and I use 2000gigs+ of bandwidth a month.
It's not the congent that is to blame for some bad experiences which some of you may have, but the host you deal with. If the host is solid and they know what they're doing, you won't have any problems, they usually have backups in case the primary provider goes down. So before you say anything bad about cogent, make sure it's not the host that is having the problems keeping your box alive.
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