Re: cox vs centurylink

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Author: der.hans
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Subject: Re: cox vs centurylink
Am 17. Jul, 2015 schwätzte Keith Smith so:

> On 2015-07-17 00:17, der.hans wrote:


> 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


I get a couple late night outages a year and a longer outage every couple
of years.

Getting a tech out the following day is good, but the last outage took a
couple of days to get someone out.

> 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


I highly recommend it. Remember to ask them to update the reverse dns on
your IPs to your domain. It was a quick and easy phone call.

> contract. From then on it is month to month which cost more so there is an
> incentive to be on a contract.


New contract goes year to year rather than month to month :(.

ciao,

der.hans
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