> Lots of disdain for Cogent on this thread, and very little comments about HE effectively having much the same business model as Cogent: sell pipes as cheap as possible, run them as hot (full) as possible, care little about performance implications.
I'm sorry, but how is the quality of HE's performance in any way relevant to the issue of Cogent refusing to follow industry norms for settlement-free / equal cost-sharing peering? Cogent isn't refusing to peer with HE (and Google btw) because of latency/loss. Cogent is notorious for trying to squeeze every penny out of other networks through peering, HE is the exact opposite.
I'm sorry, but how is the quality of HE's performance in any way relevant to the issue of Cogent refusing to follow industry norms for settlement-free / equal cost-sharing peering? Cogent isn't refusing to peer with HE (and Google btw) because of latency/loss. Cogent is notorious for trying to squeeze every penny out of other networks through peering, HE is the exact opposite.