[ale] Comcast Business Class experiences?

[Chris Woodfield]

AT&T U-Verse isn't available to me, and non-U-Verse AT&T DSL isn't  
competitive price-wise.

-C

On Mar 25, 2009, at 11:40 AM, 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 
> > 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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