>> >> For my money, I stay on residential, even though more or less I have a >> business network behind it, one address suits me just fine. >> Everything I need to do outside is more or less personal, unless my >> servers need an update or something, or I vpn somewhere else. I found >> out a few years ago cox stopped filtering a lot of things on >> residential, lo and behold I could now hit 443 on residential service >> - then I really didn't need business services. >> > > The business package was only $25 more a month and they do allow > servers. I don't think my rates haver gone up in 4 years. > That is good to know as well, I'd be good with a 50x10 service for ~80/mo if I got another address, or could. I moved my personal stuff outside of my server lans (I just used a "user" stub off my asa) and moved to a separate dd-wrt system, the bit about another address was the first time I'd thought about "needing" business services, otherwise I only call when I need to tell them to fix something specific and definitely. Interesting enough, they offer L2 backhaul services on modems, ie. virtual circuits to terminate them back to a coi internet on metro ethernet, ocx, etc, even for resale. There are companies reselling cox modem bandwidth backhaul now now, providing "value add services" at a pop, layering on video and other services, and providing their own internet pipes for them (or just egressing with cox bandwidth anyways). I thought it might be cool to group in with friends to go off-net or centralize internet egress somewhere ala a corp net, if they're reselling them as that+ fees, must be able to get them at an affordable price as a reseller. Real L2 lan between homes without the outside world, no vpn. Split the bandwidth, just pay for transit, lan party remotely. :) -mb --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss