Cogent for ISP bandwidth

[jason at thebaughers.com (Jason Baugher)]

The emails on the Outages list reminded me to ask this question...

I've done some searching and haven't been able to find much in the last 
3 years as to their reliability and suitability as an upstream provider. 
For a regional ISP looking for GigE ports in the Chicago/St. Louis area, 
is Cogent a reasonable solution? Our gut feeling is that they don't 
stack up against a Level3 or Sprint, but they are being very aggressive 
with pricing to try and get our business.

Thanks,
Jason