We are nearing the end of our contract with cogent and are deciding whether to continue with them. Bandcon has recently (within a last year or so) established its presence in NYC metro area.
Who would you choose among the two? Please give your input and evaluation of the two networks.
I am having a strange DNS issue on a Cogent circuit using Cogent DNS servers at 66.28.0.45 and 66.28.0.61. What is happening is that some domain requests will timeout the first try. Then subsequent tries will be quick with no timeouts.
I am having a very hard time getting through to Cogent that there might be an issue somewhere and I was wondering if anyone on a Cogent line using the same Cogent DNS servers could also do a test for me to and see if you can reproduce any timeouts.
How I am testing:
- Open nslookup (in linux use: nslookup -timeout=2, windows defaults to 2 seconds)
- Picking a random domain name (favorite cereal.com, movie title.com, brand name.com, random word.com)
- Repeating test for same domain if timeout occurs to see the next query resolve instantly
Here is an example of what Is happening for me:
Code:
[eger@womp ~]# nslookup -timeout=2
> superman.com
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
> superman.com
Server: 66.28.0.45
Address: 66.28.0.45#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: superman.com
Address: 64.12.47.7
> napaautoparts.com
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
> napaautoparts.com
Server: 66.28.0.45
Address: 66.28.0.45#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: napaautoparts.com
Address: 208.254.241.70
>
I picked 2 random domains (that were likely not cached at the name server) and they both timeout the first try. Anyone else able to replicate this?
Anyone have experience with bandcon? Any one know a reason I should not use them?
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Is colocating with Cogent practical decision.
They offer 10 or 100 Mbps connection
Requires a year contract for full rack.
Question is how does their service, network and bandwidth do compared to other DC/providers?
For those who use (or have used) their colocation service, what kind of feedback can you give?
We are considering colocating with them.
So apparently my sales rep is telling me cogent will not give me a second circuit for a redundent line so in other words, no vrrp or hsrp nothing Unless! i purchase another 200mb contract with them.
Anyone else ever have this problem?
not even are they willing to do a port fee for the second gbic i'd take up.
if I rented a half, or full cabinet for colocation. And would wanted Cogent was my isp for the cabinet how much do they charge?
Days they take to setup?
Costs to setup? (Setup fee?)
I know their pricing 100Mbps for $1,000 which is pretty crazy deal. And if I would go on their contract would it save me a setup fee?
i want to know any datacenter that offer 10 Mb or 100Mb port unmetered cogent bandwidth.
Do you know any?
It is for an image hosting file service.
I am sure people have been in contact with Cogent regarding connectivity...
They gave me a price for a 100 Megabit and a 1 Gigabit connection. So I wanted to see what people were quoted by Cogent.
He claims they have re-structured their entire business over the past 12 months.
He quoted $10/Megabit... How does this compare to anyone else?
Also is even getting a connection thru Cogent worth it?
I have been using Cogent for many years and have always been pretty pleased with the service and bandwidth (I know many consider bottom rate/budget bandwidth). I would usually be able to call in and speak with someone who could check routing, login to switches to verify port settings, and make reverse DNS changes right then and there.
Within the last 6 months though I have been getting pretty poor support from them. Seems they are hiring more and more people just to be able to answer phones. The techs seem to have a hard time comprehending even simple reverse DNS requests and always ask me to hold for extended periods of time.
Today I called in and was even asked to hold right as they picked up the phone!! I mean, if your just going to pick up to ask me to hold, why pick up in the first place until you are ready?
I am considering getting a server from take2hosting.com. Their offer is great and sales has been very helpful and fast. Left definitely a good impression.
The downside is that they are on Cogent-only bandwidth. In the past I have really gotten something against Cogent, mainly due to one of my FDC servers being routed over Cogent and only pulling 10K/sec to Europe.
How is the Cogent network nowadays? Has it improved since a year ago? Worth considering?
From my tests the speeds are actually really great. They are located in San Jose, and I am testing speeds to Europe. For example to Surfnet Amsterdam (Cogent hands off the traffic to Surfnet in Amsterdam, so its on the Cogent network all the way) I am able to pull 2.53MB/sec. This is an incredible speed for a Westcoast<->Europe transfer. It almost makes me believe Cogent has started getting its act together.
For people who would like to test speeds, please use this test file. Especially European tests would be interesting, and it would be great if you could post where cogent hands off traffic from LosAngeles to either your network or a transit network. (In the US or Europe)
Right now I am hosting on a Level3/GlobalCrossing network @ the eastcoast. This works really well but it shows in the price. If I could combine a couple of budget boxes into one of those Quadcores it would save quite a lot. Question is: Is Cogent trustworty nowadays?
Thanks for your input
Ps. I know that hosting on a single-homed network is not the smartest thing to do. However they will add more carriers soon so this will not really be an issue. I'm expecting them to not drop Cogent tho, so my question remains
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We use Cogent at our colo, and since this Monday (8/13/07) we've been gettin dozens of complaints from AOL users stating that connections to our sites are very, very slow and often time out.
We tested from an AOL session and were able to confirm this. We found this odd, because it came out of the blue and nothing had changed on our end. We also get excellent all-around performance from other (non AOL) connections, be it dialup or broadband.
We went ahead and did a bunch of traceroutes on the AOL session. We found things get bogged down as soon as it hits Cogent's routers in DC (timeouts / no response). These AOL sessions have no problems whatsoever with other sites and other (non cogent hosted sites) loaded fast and without issue. We then tested loading Cogent's own web site from the AOL session and saw the same sluggishness as well. The same happened when we tested a couple other Cogent client sites from AOL. They all pulled very slow (10 to 35+ secs per page) on an AOL/DSL session. This did not happen on the same broadband connection w/out AOL running on top of it. The same pages loaded very fast.
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Trying trace from node 'Miami, FL, US' to '96.31.73.xxx'
1 64.214.16.65 (64.214.16.65) 0.761 ms 0.608 ms
2 so0-0-0-2488M.ar2.TPA1.gblx.net (67.17.66.165) 5.690 ms 5.695 ms
3 WBS-CONNECT-LLC.ae0.409.ar2.TPA1.gblx.net (64.214.147.222) 5.731 ms 5.880 ms
4 69.46.31.106 (69.46.31.106) 7.442 ms 6.667 ms
5 node1.sarorahosting.com (96.31.73.2) 15.734 ms 15.993 ms
6 96.31.73.xxx (96.31.73.xxx) 15.861 ms 15.795 ms
Now if I tracert from the VPS to the GLBX router, I get this.
traceroute to 64.214.16.65 (64.214.16.65), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 node1.sarorahosting.com (96.31.73.2) 0.072 ms 0.035 ms 0.008 ms
2 69.46.31.105 (69.46.31.105) 0.731 ms 0.863 ms 1.003 ms
3 gi0-6.na21.b001841-0.tpa01.atlas.cogentco.com (38.99.204.33) 1.147 ms 1.142 ms 1.428 ms
4 gi4-1.core01.tpa01.atlas.cogentco.com (38.20.33.89) 0.818 ms 0.814 ms 0.807 ms
5 po2-0.core01.mco01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.27.90) 148.004 ms * *
6 po5-0.core01.jax01.atlas.cogentco.com (66.28.4.146) 5.847 ms 5.839 ms 5.872 ms
7 po5-0.core01.atl01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.3.197) 11.953 ms 23.819 ms 23.870 ms
8 te3-3.ccr01.atl01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.5.38) 11.721 ms 11.752 ms 11.787 ms
9 te8-2.mpd01.atl04.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.3.174) 11.962 ms 11.921 ms 11.987 ms
10 ge4-1-0-390-1000M.ar4.ATL1.gblx.net (64.208.110.97) 12.252 ms 12.359 ms 12.444 ms
11 64.214.16.65 (64.214.16.65) 16.026 ms 16.061 ms 16.594 ms
Now what would be causing this to happen?
how much per mbps is the norm, assuming we're ordering 50+?
what about non-cogent?
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