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. Mark P.S. I have the bundled TV and phone package. On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 8:37 AM, Stephen Partington wrote: > 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 > > > --------------------------------------------------- > 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 >