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

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Gigamonster is the ISP I use. they resell DirecPath.

On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 9:51 PM Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> Until AT&T gets gonzo gutsy and drops fiber to demarc wall with 10G
> symmetrical, they will get no more money from me.
>
> Low life pond scum sucking leeches got a rate increase (HUGE - pushing
> 13%) to fund high speed fiber roll out to the curb. Ran conduit and
> installed termination boxes then bailed on rest of project due to cost of
> box hardware. Did the rate hike go away? Really? You're asking THAT
> question? Ha! No f'ing way.
>
> On March 4, 2019 9:28:01 PM EST, James Taylor via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>
>> I've had comcast business for quite some time.
>>
>> I have 150/20 with 1 phone #(which I don't actually use) and 5 usable
>> static for about 180/month.
>>
>> I have only had one outage longer than a couple of hours, and that was
>> when power was out for most of Marietta for 18 hours last year after an ice
>> storm.
>>
>> I have things I can complain about, but the service has be rock solid.
>>
>> -jt
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> James Taylor
>> 678-697-9420
>> james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com
>>
>>
>>
>> >>> Jeff Hubbs via Ale <ale at ale.org> 3/4/2019 7:24 PM >>>
>>
>> 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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