[ale] State of play re home Internet with static IP

Mon Mar 4 20:29:07 EST 2019

Consider checking out Atlantic-Nexus (ATNEX), 770-222-4455 or
866-462-8639.  They are an AT&T Business Uverse reseller consortium
member, but they "assured" me they had more clout with AT&T tech
support.  Been with this arrangement for over two years and I haven't
had any problems traceable to AT&T (knock on wood), .... yet. YMMV,
though.  Just a thought.

Stephen R. Blevins
stephen.r.blevins at gmail.com

On 3/4/19 8:21 PM, Jeff Hubbs via Ale wrote:
> On 3/4/19 7:52 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> I've had comcast business for years. It's solid service. Outages are
>> caused by vehicles and storms wiping out poles with wires. They hustle
>> pretty fast on repairs. They can't spell Linux but If you can
>> translate into windows speak, it works. The tech support is quite
>> knowledgeable and they really do want to help.
>>
>> It will be slower than residential service but it has no bandwidth
>> limitations.
> I'm pretty slow now - I think it's 12Mbps down and less up.
>>
>> With tmobile, you can add a phone number to an existing account and
>> can ring on multiple devices running the app. No Linux app other than
>> android. $10/m to stuff the old number to a virtual phone. Other
>> providers may have similar. Tmobile calls it "digits".
> Got no T-Mobile and I'm fine with keeping the cell phones on AT&T. We've
> been grandfathered into unlimited data on those lines and we're holding
> on to that with a death grip for as long as possible.
>>
>> The old 2 wire stuff from AT&T is too brittle.
>>
>> On March 4, 2019 7:24:54 PM EST, Jeff Hubbs via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>
>>     After many years at the status quo (AT&T UVerse and POTS land
>>     line) I'm finally looking into a rework of the home telecomm
>>     situation.
>>
>>     I have two main drivers that are forcing the decision:
>>
>>      1. Even after the shortest of power outages, upstream UVerse
>>         service goes dead and stays dead for 10-20 minutes. This was
>>         not always the case but in the last few years it's been the
>>         "new normal;" my wife works at home via VPN enough that that's
>>         a problem, and it's no good for me either. Yes, I have UPSses
>>         out the wazoo on everything and it doesn't matter. I've tried
>>         to get through to AT&T by phone to at least get the problem
>>         acknowledged but that's been impossible.
>>      2. There's a good chance I might be leaving town for my next job
>>         for an unknown amount of time, but that won't mean that I'll
>>         stop being the "IT guy" for the house; I will simply *have* to
>>         be able to shell in from the outside. If there is such a thing
>>         as a "reflector" service that sits on the Internet - even if
>>         it's my own server somewhere - that gives me a way to tunnel
>>         in reverse through some kind of connection that's initiated
>>         from inside the house, I don't want to be dependent on it.
>>
>>     Being able to run my own Internet-reachable web and email servers
>>     in the house is anticipated but is secondary to those two main
>>     drivers. 
>>
>>     It is my understanding that only AT&T and Comcast serve my street.
>>
>>     I've spoken to a rep for Comcast Business and they're telling me
>>     that within reason (with respect to affected region(s) and length
>>     of outage, I presume) their service will remain unaffected by
>>     power outage. That handles 1. above, and they also offer as few as
>>     one static IP address which should be sufficient to handle 2.
>>
>>     I have not yet called about any of AT&T's business residential
>>     offerings but when I got a flyer in the mail about some kind of
>>     fiber service being available in my neighborhood and called to
>>     inquire, I couldn't get anything even remotely like a straight
>>     answer but the upshot was that no, the fiber service wasn't
>>     available to me. I'm quite rather done with AT&T, to be honest.
>>
>>     Comcast says they can give me a VoIP-like service that can
>>     optionally use my old phone number. I'm undecided on that; the
>>     phone rings with random robocalls and other solicitations 3-5
>>     times a day (Do Not Call list notwithstanding) and there are only
>>     3 living persons whom we know who ever, *ever* call that line.
>>
>>     We would like to have a TV service with DVR available and it's my
>>     understanding from talking to Comcast that it would have to be
>>     Xfinity piggybacked on the Comcast Business service. It would be
>>     either that or satellite to still have DVR. I've never dealt with
>>     satellite service before but the houses to either side of us have
>>     it. I've built an HDTV antenna and mounted it in the attic but I
>>     haven't completed the cabling to know for sure how well it will
>>     work, and if we went that route, there'd be no DVR unless I went
>>     the whole MythTV (or equivalent) route and I'm really not willing
>>     to try that again.
>>
>>     I'm all (rabbit) ears, so let your replies rip.
>>
>>     - Jeff
>>
>>
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