cox vs centurylink

[Keith Smith]

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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Keith Smith