[ale] Comcast Business Class experiences?

[Jerald Sheets]

A bunch of us are using Atlantic Nexus.

I haven't had a day's (or hour's) issue with them since implementation when
I ran away from SpeedFactory.

Very nice company, and very good service.  Check it out.

--jms

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Jeff Hubbs <jeffrey.hubbs at gmail.com>wrote:

> Scott -
>
> One line of bull I was sold when I signed up for U-Verse was the
> availability of static IP for a small fee.  When I called post-install
> to try to get that set up, they told me it wasn't available.  I brought
> a server home from QTS on the basis of that feature only to find they'd
> baited-and-switched me.  What do you know about that?
>
> - Jeff
>
> scott mcbrien wrote:
> > 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 <mailto: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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