[ale] At&t fiber 1g symmetric for $59/m

[Derek Atkins]

I had Comcast business class for a long time.  It remained relatively solid 
once I helped them debug a router fail over config issue that was causing 
the service not to fail over when the primary router went down.  Oh, and 
when I was able to get them on the phone during a neighborhood power outage 
so they could find the fiber node battery that was dead.  However even tho 
I was supposed to have a 4hr SLA they rarely lived up to that expectation.  
Oh, and they were expensive.

I signed up for AT&T 1g fiber as soon as it became available.  My deal is 
$70/mo for life, plus $15/mo for a /29, all in (no additional hardware 
fees).  So about half of what I was paying Comcast for 20x download and 
100x upload.

One thing I will point out however is that for real world usage I never see 
more than 200-250mbps.  Even when I torrent a centos DVD, which should be 
able to saturate, it won't.  My Comcast network was never fast enough to 
test how they would compare, but it feels like AT&T interconnects are not 
as robust.

Still, I am happy with the AT&T service.  I've only had outages due to 
trees or bug machines ripping or breaking the fiber.  In those cases I have 
sometimes had a multi day outage waiting for a tech to repair.  But beyond 
those issues the service has been solid.

Oh, they will even let you insert rDNS records for your /29!

I have not tried to play with their IPv6 service lately.  I did a couple 
years ago, but I couldn't pull more than 1-2mbps through it, which made it 
completely useless behind an ostensibly 1g (or even 250mbps) pipe.  So I 
gave up on that.

Oh, I also configured my network so that the modem is not in my data path.  
This way I am not bitten by their nat table limits.  I was testing with a 
colleague and they were able to throw me off the network by filling the nat 
table from the outside!  Or I could do it inside by having local caching 
nameservers.  Oops.  Well, that's no longer a problem for me.

Happy Linuxing everyone.

-derek
Sent using my mobile device. Please excuse any typos.
On July 18, 2020 8:43:58 AM Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> The connectivity being solid is a big plus. I've had 3 outages in 10 years 
> with comcast. One was my typo in the firewall and their engineer sat on the 
> phone testing packets with me. The second was a storm that dropped a tree 
> across wires ripping down everything. The last one was last week. No idea 
> what that was. I called, they beat the sla by an hour. Something on their 
> end. In fact, the automated calling process informed me they knew of an 
> outage impacting my service as soon as I connected. Got the "all clear" 
> text about 3 hours later.
>
> I will pursue this with more data from at&t. It's sounding like a decent move.
>
>
> On July 17, 2020 8:54:13 PM EDT, "Jeremy T. Bouse" 
> <jeremy.bouse at undergrid.net> wrote:
> That was the base price I paid for my AT&T GigaPower 1GB  fiber connection 
> out in Paulding County. $60/month for the service and then I paid an extra 
> $15 to have static IP block. After the first year it went up $20 as the 
> discount pricing I signed up for was $20/month off for the first year and 
> an additional $20 off for the life of my service. So it then went to 
> $80/month plus the $15/month for the static IP block. I didn't have any 
> issues with the connectivity. I did have some issues working to put my 
> network behind their router using my Cisco ASA 55xx but once I had that 
> worked out it was solid.
>
> Now I'm doing in Osceola County Florida and my only option is Spectrum at 
> $100+/month for comparable bandwidth and without the static IP block as I 
> don't have my servers in-house any more.
>
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 7:21 PM Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> I'm certain they will screw up something but that's a good price. Comcast 
> business has sucked out a crapton of cash over the years and I'm feeling 
> cheap. Might keep hosting ale.org if the cost goes down.
>
> Please snark comments until happiness returns. Or beer. Or both.
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