<html><head></head><body>Absolute f#&+ing SEETHING GREEN ENVY!!<br><br>Seriously. Where does one obtain such speed and price combination?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On March 4, 2019 8:34:18 PM EST, dev null zero two via Ale <ale@ale.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div dir="auto">or move :) I pay $76/mo for symmetrical gigabit internet with no caps from a small, personable ISP. I regularly transfer 1-2 TB/day and never had an issue.</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">any outages I experience, I call and get those days refunded.</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 8:29 PM Stephen R. Blevins via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Consider checking out Atlantic-Nexus (ATNEX), 770-222-4455 or<br>
866-462-8639. They are an AT&T Business Uverse reseller consortium<br>
member, but they "assured" me they had more clout with AT&T tech<br>
support. Been with this arrangement for over two years and I haven't<br>
had any problems traceable to AT&T (knock on wood), .... yet. YMMV,<br>
though. Just a thought.<br>
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Stephen R. Blevins<br>
<a href="mailto:stephen.r.blevins@gmail.com" target="_blank">stephen.r.blevins@gmail.com</a><br>
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On 3/4/19 8:21 PM, Jeff Hubbs via Ale wrote:<br>
> On 3/4/19 7:52 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
>> I've had comcast business for years. It's solid service. Outages are<br>
>> caused by vehicles and storms wiping out poles with wires. They hustle<br>
>> pretty fast on repairs. They can't spell Linux but If you can<br>
>> translate into windows speak, it works. The tech support is quite<br>
>> knowledgeable and they really do want to help.<br>
>><br>
>> It will be slower than residential service but it has no bandwidth<br>
>> limitations.<br>
> I'm pretty slow now - I think it's 12Mbps down and less up.<br>
>><br>
>> With tmobile, you can add a phone number to an existing account and<br>
>> can ring on multiple devices running the app. No Linux app other than<br>
>> android. $10/m to stuff the old number to a virtual phone. Other<br>
>> providers may have similar. Tmobile calls it "digits".<br>
> Got no T-Mobile and I'm fine with keeping the cell phones on AT&T. We've<br>
> been grandfathered into unlimited data on those lines and we're holding<br>
> on to that with a death grip for as long as possible.<br>
>><br>
>> The old 2 wire stuff from AT&T is too brittle.<br>
>><br>
>> On March 4, 2019 7:24:54 PM EST, Jeff Hubbs via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> After many years at the status quo (AT&T UVerse and POTS land<br>
>> line) I'm finally looking into a rework of the home telecomm<br>
>> situation.<br>
>><br>
>> I have two main drivers that are forcing the decision:<br>
>><br>
>> 1. Even after the shortest of power outages, upstream UVerse<br>
>> service goes dead and stays dead for 10-20 minutes. This was<br>
>> not always the case but in the last few years it's been the<br>
>> "new normal;" my wife works at home via VPN enough that that's<br>
>> a problem, and it's no good for me either. Yes, I have UPSses<br>
>> out the wazoo on everything and it doesn't matter. I've tried<br>
>> to get through to AT&T by phone to at least get the problem<br>
>> acknowledged but that's been impossible.<br>
>> 2. There's a good chance I might be leaving town for my next job<br>
>> for an unknown amount of time, but that won't mean that I'll<br>
>> stop being the "IT guy" for the house; I will simply *have* to<br>
>> be able to shell in from the outside. If there is such a thing<br>
>> as a "reflector" service that sits on the Internet - even if<br>
>> it's my own server somewhere - that gives me a way to tunnel<br>
>> in reverse through some kind of connection that's initiated<br>
>> from inside the house, I don't want to be dependent on it.<br>
>><br>
>> Being able to run my own Internet-reachable web and email servers<br>
>> in the house is anticipated but is secondary to those two main<br>
>> drivers. <br>
>><br>
>> It is my understanding that only AT&T and Comcast serve my street.<br>
>><br>
>> I've spoken to a rep for Comcast Business and they're telling me<br>
>> that within reason (with respect to affected region(s) and length<br>
>> of outage, I presume) their service will remain unaffected by<br>
>> power outage. That handles 1. above, and they also offer as few as<br>
>> one static IP address which should be sufficient to handle 2.<br>
>><br>
>> I have not yet called about any of AT&T's business residential<br>
>> offerings but when I got a flyer in the mail about some kind of<br>
>> fiber service being available in my neighborhood and called to<br>
>> inquire, I couldn't get anything even remotely like a straight<br>
>> answer but the upshot was that no, the fiber service wasn't<br>
>> available to me. I'm quite rather done with AT&T, to be honest.<br>
>><br>
>> Comcast says they can give me a VoIP-like service that can<br>
>> optionally use my old phone number. I'm undecided on that; the<br>
>> phone rings with random robocalls and other solicitations 3-5<br>
>> times a day (Do Not Call list notwithstanding) and there are only<br>
>> 3 living persons whom we know who ever, *ever* call that line.<br>
>><br>
>> We would like to have a TV service with DVR available and it's my<br>
>> understanding from talking to Comcast that it would have to be<br>
>> Xfinity piggybacked on the Comcast Business service. It would be<br>
>> either that or satellite to still have DVR. I've never dealt with<br>
>> satellite service before but the houses to either side of us have<br>
>> it. I've built an HDTV antenna and mounted it in the attic but I<br>
>> haven't completed the cabling to know for sure how well it will<br>
>> work, and if we went that route, there'd be no DVR unless I went<br>
>> the whole MythTV (or equivalent) route and I'm really not willing<br>
>> to try that again.<br>
>><br>
>> I'm all (rabbit) ears, so let your replies rip.<br>
>><br>
>> - Jeff<br>
>><br>
>><br>
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