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 <techlists@phpcoderusa.com> 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

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