I recently switched our Hosting company from Cogent to Global Crossing. Our International customers have never been happier. Some of our customers saw a huge increase in speed. Customers were seeing 27 hops being reduced to 10-12 hops from Russia, Netherlands, New Zealand and Australia.
If you want surfers outside of the U.S. to be able to access your sites fast, you really need to look at B/W providers who have great peering and a Global Backbone.
There wasn't anything wrong with Cogent other than slightly slower routing, we never experienced any down time in over a year with them. We just felt we needed a faster connection for our International customers.
