[jasongill]

The people downvoting you don't have experience with transit or Cogent - they are literally the worst peer. Their company motto is to undercut everyone else on price and oversaturate their peers as much as possible. They are a horrible provider. They have been de-peered by large providers like Layer3 many times due to flagrant abuse.

That said the price is great and I had a large presence at Cogent's Herndon location for the better part of a decade. Terrible service but price was so great, couldn't resist.

[tw04]

I think you mean level3,, not layer3. And where did that get them?

http://news.level3.com/2017-11-01-CenturyLink-completes-acqu...

Ahh, right. After being literally the best backbone provider in the world, they were destroyed by last-mile ISPs in the US who choked them out of the game. Speaking of a shining example of why we need stronger anti-monopoly laws in the US...

[scurvy]

Eh, I was never impressed with Level3. Their network was huge, and they generally had zero clue what was happening on it. Big networks aren't always better. Level3 got to be huge by running up massive amounts of debt and pricing services uncompetitively. People buying Level3 transit were those in the "you never get fired for buying IBM" mindset.