[ale] isp questions

[Horkan Smith]

FWIW, I have a similar Comcast Business setup and have been generally happy with it.  It is *much* more expensive than residential.  And, while I haven't had local saturation problems, it likely shares equipment w/ residential in my area - they tend to go down / come back up around the same times.

I'm (background) exploring the idea of a Digital Ocean VM w/ static IP to proxy/route/something my DNS, mail, web, ssh, etc traffic that's holding me to the local static IPs and modem rental.  Anybody made that switch?

later!
   horkan

On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 12:10:51AM -0400, Jim Kinney via Ale wrote:
>Comcast business is rock solid. Cost is astronomical. You get what you pay for. I pay about $265/m. My bandwidth is not impacted by  everyone around me being online sequestered at home. Prime factor in cost is upstream bandwidth. 5 static IPs are horrendously overpriced . AT&T has nothing close in that price range.
>
>On June 15, 2020 11:29:23 PM EDT, Solomon Peachy via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 10:53:42PM -0400, Sean Kilpatrick via Ale
>>wrote:
>>> Do not fall into the trap of Comcast/Xfinity. When you have a problem
>>(and
>>> you WILL have a problem) you will be forced to interact with a call
>>center
>>
>>Unless you go with Comcast Business.  They actually provide SLAs and
>>competent support folks, plus no quotas or blocked ports.  Naturally,
>>you'll pay the privilge -- the last two places I lived, it ended up
>>running about double the residental rates for internet-only service.
>>
>> - Solomon
>>--
>>Solomon Peachy			      pizza at shaftnet dot org (email&xmpp)
>>                                     @pizza:shaftnet dot org   (matrix)
>>High Springs, FL                      speachy (freenode)
>
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