cox vs centurylink

[Keith Smith]

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