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Cogent isn't anywhere near as bad as people make them out to be.
Imagine for a moment what would happen if _you alone_ were to open a gas station in your City that served up gas for 20 cents per gallon & because of your new modern way of doing it, you could do it and turn a small profit... while your competitors are charging 10x more.
How long do you think it would take before everyone in the oil industry from the guy working on the rig, to the guy behind the gas station counter would be cursing your name and trying to sabatoge your inevitable growth.
That is a perfect analogy for what cogent did & how the market reacted.
Everyone trashed talked their name, their business plan, their network etc... because they were scared shitless.
And in fact, unless you're a hosting company, you can thank them for breaking the market down to the < $100/mbit range.
In the past (~3 years ago?) when they first started promoting their $1000 100/mbit deal in a market where the lowest pricing was ~$150/mbit (if not more) sure, they ran into a few of kinks.
Anyway I'm sure they are fine now for the money, as they always were - BUT now the market is far more competitive and you have more options for "premium" bandwidth for close to or even less than what you would pay for Cogent.
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