Cogent Bandwidth?

I bet in a year a similar topic will be up for cogentco... I believe they won't go down, they hold technology, so far the proved they can raise funds....stay tuned.

I have to disagree with you on that one. When the first people on the block popped in with $2 a gig hosting, I called them on the phone to find out if they were going to host me on a cable modem in their friends basement Because every other host around was charging $5 GB.
He told me the reason everyone else was charging more was because they were still locked into bandwidth contracts that they signed the year before, and he dropped his prices because he just got out of his old contract.
Just because it costs more doesn't mean its better, and just because the big boys aren't using it doesn't mean its not any good.



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Did somebody say Free Content?

there is no difference this days,if surfers masturbate at verio or cogentco-bandwith.

Another good source for Cogent bandwidth is Host2Own.
For all the naysayers, there is a reason that cogent bandwidth is cheaper. One being that cogent owns their own network. Plus their network is based on fiber optics, not copper...which equals increased capacity per line.
Just like conventional bw, there are good hosts and then there are bad hosts that oversell their lines, use inferior routers,...
I have recently added a dedicated server connected to a dedicated cogent 10mbps line. On head to head tests (using tracert.com)against almost any of the hosts that regularily pop up on this board, my cogent sites perform admirably.

Addition to my last message. I just took one of my sites and did a speed test against 7 other sites listed on al4a. (All with similar file sizes and number of graphics). I picked 10 locations from around the world to run the speed tests using the tracert.com speed-meter. The results - my site beat the connection and download times for 5 of the sites...2 sites beat my times.

I'll take proper research over heresay any day.