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Old 09-08-2003, 01:14 PM  
ckm
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Quote:
Originally posted by VirtuMike
Oh and let's not forget the Rackshack bandwidth coverup - they put the inbounds on a real provider but your outbounds are cogent. What does this do? It makes it look like you're on a real provider before you buy and you're doing your traces to probe them. Once you sign you can trace out and you see the ugly truth.

I HATE THAT.
I took you up on your claim and did traces out of my box at rackshack and saw Verio, Time Warner, MFN, and Allegiance... No Cogent... except for when I did a trace to cogentco.com and psinet. Using the cogent argument when saying why someone shouldn't use rackshack is getting old. Their mrtg graphs are public and out of their 13 gig-e's, only 1 is cogent. Even their 10mbit boxes aren't all cogent only anymore - the CTO posted in their forum they are moving those to BGP too. If you are getting cogent on the outbound, it is because BGP says thats the best route.
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