[ale] State of play re home Internet with static IP
dev null zero two
dev.null.02 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 4 20:34:18 EST 2019
or move :) I pay $76/mo for symmetrical gigabit internet with no caps from
a small, personable ISP. I regularly transfer 1-2 TB/day and never had an
issue.
any outages I experience, I call and get those days refunded.
On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 8:29 PM Stephen R. Blevins via Ale <ale at ale.org>
wrote:
> Consider checking out Atlantic-Nexus (ATNEX), 770-222-4455 or
> 866-462-8639. They are an AT&T Business Uverse reseller consortium
> member, but they "assured" me they had more clout with AT&T tech
> support. Been with this arrangement for over two years and I haven't
> had any problems traceable to AT&T (knock on wood), .... yet. YMMV,
> though. Just a thought.
>
> Stephen R. Blevins
> stephen.r.blevins at gmail.com
>
> On 3/4/19 8:21 PM, Jeff Hubbs via Ale wrote:
> > On 3/4/19 7:52 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> >> I've had comcast business for years. It's solid service. Outages are
> >> caused by vehicles and storms wiping out poles with wires. They hustle
> >> pretty fast on repairs. They can't spell Linux but If you can
> >> translate into windows speak, it works. The tech support is quite
> >> knowledgeable and they really do want to help.
> >>
> >> It will be slower than residential service but it has no bandwidth
> >> limitations.
> > I'm pretty slow now - I think it's 12Mbps down and less up.
> >>
> >> With tmobile, you can add a phone number to an existing account and
> >> can ring on multiple devices running the app. No Linux app other than
> >> android. $10/m to stuff the old number to a virtual phone. Other
> >> providers may have similar. Tmobile calls it "digits".
> > Got no T-Mobile and I'm fine with keeping the cell phones on AT&T. We've
> > been grandfathered into unlimited data on those lines and we're holding
> > on to that with a death grip for as long as possible.
> >>
> >> The old 2 wire stuff from AT&T is too brittle.
> >>
> >> On March 4, 2019 7:24:54 PM EST, Jeff Hubbs via Ale <ale at ale.org>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> After many years at the status quo (AT&T UVerse and POTS land
> >> line) I'm finally looking into a rework of the home telecomm
> >> situation.
> >>
> >> I have two main drivers that are forcing the decision:
> >>
> >> 1. Even after the shortest of power outages, upstream UVerse
> >> service goes dead and stays dead for 10-20 minutes. This was
> >> not always the case but in the last few years it's been the
> >> "new normal;" my wife works at home via VPN enough that that's
> >> a problem, and it's no good for me either. Yes, I have UPSses
> >> out the wazoo on everything and it doesn't matter. I've tried
> >> to get through to AT&T by phone to at least get the problem
> >> acknowledged but that's been impossible.
> >> 2. There's a good chance I might be leaving town for my next job
> >> for an unknown amount of time, but that won't mean that I'll
> >> stop being the "IT guy" for the house; I will simply *have* to
> >> be able to shell in from the outside. If there is such a thing
> >> as a "reflector" service that sits on the Internet - even if
> >> it's my own server somewhere - that gives me a way to tunnel
> >> in reverse through some kind of connection that's initiated
> >> from inside the house, I don't want to be dependent on it.
> >>
> >> Being able to run my own Internet-reachable web and email servers
> >> in the house is anticipated but is secondary to those two main
> >> drivers.
> >>
> >> It is my understanding that only AT&T and Comcast serve my street.
> >>
> >> I've spoken to a rep for Comcast Business and they're telling me
> >> that within reason (with respect to affected region(s) and length
> >> of outage, I presume) their service will remain unaffected by
> >> power outage. That handles 1. above, and they also offer as few as
> >> one static IP address which should be sufficient to handle 2.
> >>
> >> I have not yet called about any of AT&T's business residential
> >> offerings but when I got a flyer in the mail about some kind of
> >> fiber service being available in my neighborhood and called to
> >> inquire, I couldn't get anything even remotely like a straight
> >> answer but the upshot was that no, the fiber service wasn't
> >> available to me. I'm quite rather done with AT&T, to be honest.
> >>
> >> Comcast says they can give me a VoIP-like service that can
> >> optionally use my old phone number. I'm undecided on that; the
> >> phone rings with random robocalls and other solicitations 3-5
> >> times a day (Do Not Call list notwithstanding) and there are only
> >> 3 living persons whom we know who ever, *ever* call that line.
> >>
> >> We would like to have a TV service with DVR available and it's my
> >> understanding from talking to Comcast that it would have to be
> >> Xfinity piggybacked on the Comcast Business service. It would be
> >> either that or satellite to still have DVR. I've never dealt with
> >> satellite service before but the houses to either side of us have
> >> it. I've built an HDTV antenna and mounted it in the attic but I
> >> haven't completed the cabling to know for sure how well it will
> >> work, and if we went that route, there'd be no DVR unless I went
> >> the whole MythTV (or equivalent) route and I'm really not willing
> >> to try that again.
> >>
> >> I'm all (rabbit) ears, so let your replies rip.
> >>
> >> - Jeff
> >>
> >>
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