<div dir="ltr"><div>I have been using Cox residential for over 20 years (is that even possible?), and except for a few outages (new construction in the area and someone cut the cable), my Internet has just worked. I have my own home LAN with several machines running on it, and the biggest outages occurred when my cable modems died. I dread calling them on the phone with a problem and I really don't understand how they earned all these JD Powers awards for customer service (unless they just bought them), but the Internet just seems to work for me. I am located in central Scottsdale.<br><br></div><div>Mark<br><br></div><div>P.S. I have the bundled TV and phone package.<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 8:37 AM, Stephen Partington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cryptworks@gmail.com" target="_blank">cryptworks@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Well i have to say in my area Century Link is a horrible amount of fail. 20mb max residential and business is up to 40mb but with only 2mb upload for almost 200 a month.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 5:30 AM, Keith Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:techlists@phpcoderusa.com" target="_blank">techlists@phpcoderusa.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><span>On 2015-07-17 00:17, der.hans wrote:<br>
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moin moin,<br>
<br>
it would be a pay-per-view grudge match :).<br>
<br>
Anyway, time to reconsider ISPs. Those are the two wired options<br>
available. No charter in my neighborhood and I have been told by many,<br>
many people to be thankful of that.<br>
<br>
Anyway, my requirements are to have all ports open, static IPs and decent<br>
upstream bandwidth.<br>
<br>
Cox residential is out because they block ports 25 and 80.<br>
<br>
Cox business allows all ports, offers static IPs and has decent bandwidth<br>
in both directions.<br>
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I work from home and have Cox Business. I have had one short outage in 3 or 4 years compared to one or two every year while on a consumer plan. I ran a server for a short time and it seemed to be fine. I suspect some latency since it is not a direct connection to the Internet. They have always treated me well. When I switched over from consumer to business it cost an additional $25/mo. Not sure of the marginal cost today. I'm planning on setting up a server when I get the time and do my own hosting... at least for a while to both same money and learn. And I think initially there is a contract. From then on it is month to month which cost more so there is an incentive to be on a contract.<span><br>
<br>
<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br>
CenturyLink wants to hide all the information about its services. I did<br>
finally find some information including further contradictory information,<br>
so I'm confused about what they offer. I have little confidence in their<br>
sales support knowing.<br>
<br>
CenturyLink partners with m$ for services I don't care about ( hosted mail<br>
and web ).<br>
<br>
It looks like CenturyLink is prepping to compete with Google fiber, but<br>
not holding my breath for that service or the competitive response from<br>
the incumbants.<br>
<br>
Then again, CenturyLink's site is dedicated to bundling with little<br>
information for what you actually get in the bundles.<br>
<br>
Any feedback on experience with Qwest/CenturyLink?<br>
<br>
ciao,<br>
<br>
der.hans<br>
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-- <br></span><span><font color="#888888">
Keith Smith</font></span></div></div><div><div><br>
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