I have had pretty decent experiences when connecting with their customer service. Lots of red tape like hoops to jump through however. On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Mark Phillips wrote: > 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 >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > 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