cox vs centurylink

[Stephen Partington]

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 at 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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