[ale] Comcast Business Class experiences?

[Greg Freemyer]

Be sure and find out the install cost.  I'm in an office park and we
thought about Comcast.

Turned out the closest fiber was a little ways away from us.  (In the
park, but not on the street in front of our building).  For only $6K
they would have been happy to run us a drop.  Guess who's not using
Comcast.

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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