08-02-2005, 04:13 PM
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AboveNET really that good?
Hey guys, have a question for you all. Im in the gaming business. Right now we have 1 server east coast but we are looking to change providers becuase customers have been complaining about lag. My boss wants to get a server with at the AboveNET datacenter because he said they have a superior network and they are worth the extra money. My question to you guys is AboveNET really that great for gaming servers? If not, do you guys have any suggestions for east cost datacenters?
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08-02-2005, 04:17 PM
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I LOVE Cogent!
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I've never been a fan of Above's network, but that's just me...where are the clients going to be connecting for gaming? Locally? Across the US? Location can be important.
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08-02-2005, 04:23 PM
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This server is for east coast clients. What bout Netivex or CRNC, would you recommend them as a quality network that can deliver low ping to east coast (maybe even central) clients?
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08-02-2005, 04:26 PM
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AboveNet Network is super good and their support are excellent...
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08-02-2005, 04:29 PM
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Jeninifer, I'm glad that you love aboveNet so much that you are willing to sign up just now just to post that they are good...?
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08-02-2005, 04:29 PM
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I LOVE Cogent!
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Quote:
Originally posted by antonym66
This server is for east coast clients. What bout Netivex or CRNC, would you recommend them as a quality network that can deliver low ping to east coast (maybe even central) clients?
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Search the forums for both of those, I've heard good things about CRNC.
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08-02-2005, 04:47 PM
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I'm not a big fan of AboveNet either, for the NYC area check out CRNC, Netivex and Voxrox.
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08-02-2005, 05:19 PM
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cloud beats dedicated ;)
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they used to be really good - but they have definately slid over the past 2 years. we just got rid of them last month and saw our traffic improve. there are much better choices.
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08-02-2005, 07:16 PM
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I'm not a fan of Abovenet, especially if they're MORE expensive for you. On of the appealing points about them is they're generally more affordable than other carriers.
They have a rather small network, compared to the Tier 1's, and simply don't have many end users on their network. Thir international presence is basically non-existant. Then take a look at their financials... http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=ABVT.PK
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08-02-2005, 10:48 PM
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cloud beats dedicated ;)
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Quote:
Originally posted by KarlZimmer
I'm not a fan of Abovenet, especially if they're MORE expensive for you. On of the appealing points about them is they're generally more affordable than other carriers.
They have a rather small network, compared to the Tier 1's, and simply don't have many end users on their network. Thir international presence is basically non-existant. Then take a look at their financials... http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=ABVT.PK
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holy crap - I cant believe they ahve not bankrupted again already.
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08-03-2005, 08:04 AM
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If you take the financials into consideration than you have very limited choices as many of the providers are in poor shape.
Look at the stock price of L3 trading at $2.08 or Cogent at $7.60.
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08-03-2005, 08:50 AM
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Abovenet are rubbish IMO, unfortunately my routes to the US nearly always use them, it's been pretty hard to get more than 100kb/s cross country...
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08-03-2005, 09:18 AM
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Most infrastructure provider require extensive build up and heavy investment in the initial infrastructure. This is the reason why most of them are in heavy debt and has pretty bad financial performance generally. It's the nature of the industry.
That said, Abovenet does look pretty bad. Their cash position doesn't look like it's sufficient for a single month's burn rate...
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08-03-2005, 10:09 AM
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It appears that Cogent is doing siginificantly better than AboveNet, financially at least.
As for the network, its pretty decent although I wouldn't call it high quality per se.
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08-03-2005, 11:28 AM
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here goes my custom title!
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although companies such as gigeservers and staminus (offer ddos protection) use only them for incoming bandwidth. I think they help costumers in ddos attacks dont know how or if its true, but many irc providers (need to be protected from ddoses) use them.
abovenet is Tier-1 right?
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