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. On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 5:30 AM, Keith Smith wrote: > On 2015-07-17 00:17, der.hans wrote: > >> moin moin, >> >> it would be a pay-per-view grudge match :). >> >> Anyway, time to reconsider ISPs. Those are the two wired options >> available. No charter in my neighborhood and I have been told by many, >> many people to be thankful of that. >> >> Anyway, my requirements are to have all ports open, static IPs and decent >> upstream bandwidth. >> >> Cox residential is out because they block ports 25 and 80. >> >> Cox business allows all ports, offers static IPs and has decent bandwidth >> in both directions. >> > > 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 $25/mo. Not sure of the marginal cost today. I'm > planning on setting up a server when I get the time and do my own > hosting... at least for a while to both same money and learn. And I think > initially there is a contract. From then on it is month to month which > cost more so there is an incentive to be on a contract. > > > >> CenturyLink wants to hide all the information about its services. I did >> finally find some information including further contradictory information, >> so I'm confused about what they offer. I have little confidence in their >> sales support knowing. >> >> CenturyLink partners with m$ for services I don't care about ( hosted mail >> and web ). >> >> It looks like CenturyLink is prepping to compete with Google fiber, but >> not holding my breath for that service or the competitive response from >> the incumbants. >> >> Then again, CenturyLink's site is dedicated to bundling with little >> information for what you actually get in the bundles. >> >> Any feedback on experience with Qwest/CenturyLink? >> >> ciao, >> >> der.hans >> > > -- > Keith Smith > > --------------------------------------------------- > 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 > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen