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And then you will always get someone posting like myself, who says that Cogent can be good and cheap bandwidth.
After the AOL peering scare I moved one of my dedicated servers off of Cogent and onto a verio connection. To my surprise, my bandwidth usage did not change at all. It was about 5.7 mbps on cogent and 5.7 mbps sustained on the new box as well. If AOL and others were having problems connecting, logic would have it that my bandwidth usage should have skyrocketed.
Plus, I test my download times religously once a day from 10 loacations worldwide, to all of my dedicated boxes. The difference between my Cogent boxes and my other boxes is usually within 1 to 2 seconds for the download of my 184K test page.
I think it all has more to do with the quality of the host and their knowledge of tweaking the server for your particular type of traffic. I now manage all of my own boxes, and as indicated above, I find there is no real difference between Cogent and the other "premium" providers.
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