Comments on: Cogent, Sprint Disconnect Networks, May Cause Web Slowdown

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By: The major incidents on the Internet in 2008 | ISPam.nl

The major incidents on the Internet in 2008 | ISPam.nl — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 07:03:48 +0000

[...] geschil met Telia en Sprint Cogent is al eerder in opspraak geweest en al eerder heeft een onderbroken peering tussen deze transit leverancier en een andere provider ertoe geleid dat delen van Internet [...]

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By: rowanrook

rowanrook — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:21:52 +0000

No doubt Sprint has its reasons; however, such drastic action seems premature. What about the court system? Take Cogent to court for damages if you think you have a case, Sprint. Don\’t take it out on your innocent customers. Can anyone say \”class action suit?\” Take Sprint and Cogent to court for damages, people. Also, join the EFF which is the only organization I know of which fights against this kind of behavior.

By: Sprint, Cogent Temporarily Reconnect Networks - GigaOM

Sprint, Cogent Temporarily Reconnect Networks - GigaOM — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 01:17:16 +0000

[...] like the Sprint and Cogent networks are back talking to each other — at least temporarily. After the two companies severed networks on October 30, there has been wide spread criticism of the severing of the networks. According to some sources [...]

By: anon

anon — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 21:51:17 +0000

peering has been restored between sprint and cogent…

By: anon

anon — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 18:11:55 +0000

first off anyone that is running a serious business should know better than to be single homed to one provider.

second, most of you don't understand peering and how networks work, this is something that surely does not need to be regulated or controlled by laws and the government.

peering IS a PRIVILEGE.

service providers run a business just like anything else, and when it comes to peering, agreements are made based on certain criteria, if you dont follow that criteria and you dont want to pay for the services, than the only thing to do is disconnect those "services'

cogent is cheap and likes to play these games, they dont want to pay for transit or peering, so they knowingly go into these "trial" agreements, knowing at the end, if they dont satisfy the contract they will be asked to pay or will be cut off.

cogent is a very shady company when it comes to this, so all you cogent customers should be calling up blaming them, as they are the reason for these reoccurring depeerings

By: Albert

Albert — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 13:38:00 +0000

I’m a professor at Univ of IL-Chicago and not only can I not my university mail server using a client like Thunderbird, I can’t even access the university’s home page. This is a disaster for me and I am really pissed off at Sprint for taking such Draconian measures. I canceled my service last night; luckily I succeeded in getting the early cancellation penalty waived.

By: jerry

jerry — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:55:56 +0000

I am a sprint customer with two T1 lines, hosting our own servers. Many of our customers are universities, several of whom are served by Cogent. Our best customers can’t access our sites, and can’t even email us. I understand Sprint’s position, but they’re decision is costing me big bucks. If it was a sprint outage, they would have it fixed in hours, but this is a conscious decision to cut service, and there’s no prediction as to a time to restore. It would probably take a month to bring in a T1 from another provider. Do I start that process in case this thing goes a month? These companies are ASKING for government regulation. Sprint is scheduled to launch their WIMAX service in Chicago next week. Interesting that the WIMAX users won’t be able to connect to the Univ of IL at Chicago sites.

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By: Mizzle

Mizzle — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:12:34 +0000

It is inconvenient for everybody but Cogent is known for this kind of crap they are as responsible if not more responsible than Sprint. They were given multiple notices prior to being cutoff and disregarded them now it is thier turn to face the consequences of thier actions. Obviously this is inconvenient for them but wouldn’t you think Sprint would use Sprint’s own connection for thier business? Do you not realize this also affects Sprint and the emplyees there of? Wow it amazes me how demanding people are calling for regulation when all that does is cause more cost to be incurred that ends up trickling down to the end user becaues it would be bad business for the company to just eat it. I wonder if anyone considered the fact that Cogent traffic outweight Sprint traffic in the peering communication? If someone were cutting accross your backyard there isn’t a single one of you complaining that wouldn’t expect to get yours.

By: dubbc

dubbc — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 23:36:07 +0000

I am both a customer of cogent and sprint, with Internet connections with each. I know "moot" has stated earlier that nobody is blackholing Cogent's routes, but I disagree. When I had a netblock advertised only via Cogent (using both their a and b peers), I could not connect to the site, at all, via a Sprint link, even if I could see the routes on Level 3, ATT, etc looking glass sites.

Regardless of the reasoning, this is b.s. and needs to be resolved.

By: Sanz

Sanz — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:41:14 +0000

I am a Sprint customer who maintains several sites that are hosted by fatcow. I cannot access any of the sites, two of which are scheduled for updates this weekend, nor can I get the email from several of my accounts. I just found out yesterday that Cogent is fatcow’s bandwidth provider. I can’t even access the fatcow website so that I can read the system alert explaining the disconnect. I spoke to a few Sprint reps today (customer service, tech support & contracts) and, not only were they all ignorant about the service disconnection, they concluded that I would be penalized if I canceled the contract because I still had access to the Internet. This is well and truly f*cked!

By: Gary

Gary — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:03:31 +0000

There needs to be a law or some regulation that prevents this kind of disconnection. Both my company and our customers are unable to access certain websites and obtain email services and more. Sprint-Nextel management has a total disregard for all thoses affected and they should be punished severely! I plan to wage my own personal war against Sprint-Nextel by contacting my local Congressman, Federal Trade Commission, and many others. I encourage everyone that was affected do the same. All these Tier 1 Carriers think they’re GOD LIKE and get away with anything. We need more federal regulation on these telecommunication companies.