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

[Solomon Peachy]

On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 07:24:54PM -0500, Jeff Hubbs via Ale wrote:
> 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.

Since I got comcast biz service in 2013, I've had several outages.  Two 
were due to hurricanes and lasted a couple of days (waah, first world 
problems), one was due to someone plowing into the power substation that 
fed my entire neighborhood (my UPS batteries laster longer than 
Comcast's, but that became a moot point after the outage ticked past the 
4th hour..) and the final two were literally caused by somone with a 
shovel.

Both shovel-induced outages led to Comcast having a truck in my driveway 
under an hour after I called.

One other thing -- you can supply your own modem with comcast internet, 
and that works well.. unless you want a static IP!  So factor in modem 
rental into the cost.  It was up $12/mo a couple of years ago.

(They screwed something up on their end when I moved last, so they think 
 I now own their modem.  Needless to say I'm not going to complain!)

> 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.

I'd only get the phone if the bundle is cheaper than standalone service 
(and then cancel after the promotion ends!)

> 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. 

I don't recall if comcast biz's TV service offers a DVR-capable STB, but 
it's on the "X1" platform so it may.

 - Solomon
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Solomon Peachy			       pizza at shaftnet dot org
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