[ale] Comcast Business Class experiences?

[scott mcbrien]

Chris,

Have you priced AT&T's UVerse?  The DSL speeds are up to 10down/2up which
I've been getting and occasionally will operate at 12down/4up.  They give
you a non-nat'ed IP.  The downside is the initial setup is painful, but only
a day, and the equipment they give you (a 2wire router) is known for it's UI
suck.  Now that I've got all the kinks worked out it's not bad.  The upside
is that the link has been very, very reliable.  I'm on a res plan.

-Scott

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Chris Woodfield <rekoil at semihuman.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> So sadly, I think it's time to ditch Speakeasy - can't justify the
> cost anymore, especially since I haven't been able to get a full 6Mbps
> in a long time. The last national outage kinda sealed the deal for
> me...I'm in Midtown Atlanta, if that helps...
>
> So, I'm looking at Comcast's "Business Class" service - from talking
> to a rep, I'm looking at saving about $30/month if I go with their
> 6Mbps/1Mbps service and get 5 static IPs (The speakeasy plan I was on
> included 4, and gives me 768K up). I can make do with a single static
> and shave off another $5/month, but I'm not keen on having to set up
> port forwarding.
>
> So, a couple questions -
>
> How reliable/responsive *is* the Business Class service compared to
> Comcast residential? I've heard the myriad horror stories, but they
> all seem to come from the residential customers. Any insights/
> experiences from Business customers here?
>
> Does Comcast apply bandwidth caps/port blocking to Business Class
> customers?
>
> How is the CPE set up - I've seen forum posts suggesting that it's not
> a true bridge, and that even a static IP is set up as some sort of 1-
> to-1 NAT on the CPE. This will break my 6in4 tunneling (unless the CPE
> can terminate the tunnel), so I'd like to know if it can be set up in
> a true bridging mode.
>
> All in all, think it's worth the money I'd be saving to make the move?
>
> Thanks in advance...
>
> -C
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