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Originally posted by WhatAboutBob?
4. I don't feel like "doing my homework" on Cogent.
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If your business is brokering bandwidth deals, that's a horrible thing to say/admit.
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I honestly look at this - http://www.internethealthreport.com/ - not for raw data, but to look at Keynote's perspective. Not that Keynote is the bible of bandwidth, but they are the best we have at the time.
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Yeah.. too bad cogents not on there. Thats a cool little app there. But like I said, it's not like they are being welcomed by the industry. The industry has accepted them with their peering arrangements because they HAVE TO. Because their own networks will suffer if they don't. However, that doesnt mean they have to invite them to all their parties and functions you know? So I get $24/mbit less than you, but I don't get this cool little network latency comparison (yet) - I'm cool with that
(is your $54/mbit provider even up here directly? not their provider, but them)
But see, keynote and boardwatch might be frowned upon for welcoming cogent to their parties you know? It's probably not the best thing for them to do. It's not like there are/were tons of bandwidth providers out there trying to ruin the market - it was just one & from what I've read/heard - people like the companies listed there & keynote/boardwatch & the rest of them thought (hoped?) that if they shut cogent out, that they could keep their prices up and that cogent would just go away. Oops.