Re: cox vs centurylink

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Author: Keith Smith
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Subject: Re: cox vs centurylink
On 2015-07-17 10:49, der.hans wrote:
> 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.
>


Maybe that is why I do not notice the outages - I go to bed early.


> 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.
>


I took advantage of that.

>> 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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