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[TalonKarrde]

http://www.lacolo.com/


Friend's looking into them, wondering if anyone has any past experience or stories, or anything of that sort.

[ericabiz]

Cogent bandwidth. Blech.

[snickn]

They offer cogent bandwidth at verio/global crossing pricing.

Tell your friend to give Scott at Mzima Networks a call. (188844mzima)

I think Mzima can match that price, and their bandwidth is much better quality

[webtech]

I know a couple people that could offer you HE.Net Premium bandwidth at Cogent Pricing in LA

[MystiX]

FWIW, they also offer premium PAJO/InterNAP bandwidth.

[snickn]

From what I can tell, they don't even do BGP. Also, Internap isn't near the quality as it is in the East.

[gtdawg]

looks like they are doing BGP to me, Pajo(Internap)/Cogent Bandwidth

sh ip bgp 38.118.140.0
BGP routing table entry for 38.118.140.0/24, version 1403944
Paths: (55 available, best #53, table Default-IP-Routing-Table)
Not advertised to any peer

8075 174 16631 27630
207.46.32.32 from 207.46.32.32 (207.46.32.32)
Origin IGP, localpref 100, valid, external

14608 19029 18915 11509 11509 11509 11509 27630 27630 27630 27630 27630 27630 27630 27630 27630 27630 27630
209.161.175.4 from 209.161.175.4 (209.161.175.4)
Origin IGP, localpref 100, valid, external
Community: no-export

sh ip bgp 208.179.75.0
BGP routing table entry for 208.179.75.0/24, version 809594
Paths: (60 available, best #43, table Default-IP-Routing-Table)
Not advertised to any peer

6939 3356 3561 10912 11509 27630
216.218.252.152 from 216.218.252.152 (216.218.252.152)
Origin IGP, localpref 100, valid, external

1224 38 6325 16631 16631 16631 27630 27630 27630 27630 27630 27630 27630 27630
141.142.12.1 from 141.142.12.1 (141.142.12.1)
Origin IGP, localpref 100, valid, external

[snickn]

What's their ASN?

[gtdawg]

27630

[snickn]

My bad, I must have typo'd when I was doing my original, not only do they have BGP they are doing some fancy prepend'ing

[TalonKarrde]

Originally posted by Simpli-Erica
Cogent bandwidth. Blech.

Yea, I told him the same, but he just wants it to host some game servers for himself, and didn't understand cogent wasn't good enough.

Originally posted by snickn
They offer cogent bandwidth at verio/global crossing pricing.

Tell your friend to give Scott at Mzima Networks a call. (188844mzima)

I think Mzima can match that price, and their bandwidth is much better quality

Sure

[snickn]

Although many will find my recommendations for Mzima abnormally strong..they aren't, I'm a customer, actually at least one guy on this forum can verify that as I met him at the datacenter during his mzima install last week..

One of the good things about mzima is they peer with earthlink, RCN and some other cable modem providers, so connections are good...also DSLExtreme buys transit from them. One day, I'll start gaming more heh. As soon as I find time.

[MystiX]

TalonKarrde,

If your friend does put their servers @ LA Colo, they should definitely go for the PAJO/InterNAP bandwidth. InterNAP is great for game servers, 'cause there are many paths to choose from and it will always take the fastest available at any given moment. I wouldn't reccomend Cogent for game servers either.

Anyway, I think this thread has gotten a bit off-topic. It's supposed to be an inquiry about people's experience with LA Colo... not their experience with Mzima.

[snickn]

nod..Definately

It was psuedo-advice to look for someone with peering with retail ISPs (and peering in general.)

You are correct, Pajo/Internap does provide this, not as well as the east coast, however they are definately better than anything else LAColo offers