joe, that's good to know, thanks for the info.
looks like i'm probably going to order a celeron 1.3 w/ 1gb ram and 60gb hdd. what really hooks me is the 700gb transfer. right now i generally don't push over 250gb.. but in the next month or two i could easily see that doubling.
i realize it's unmanaged, really shouldn't be a problem. i hope
edit: yeah, from what i hear they're moved in a lot of stuff, so apparently they use stuff that's non-cogent a lot more now. their little graphs and stuff show like 10 different providers. but this stuff it doesn't really matter if it's on mickey mouse's line, just as long as it loads fast and it stays reliable.