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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/4/19 7:52 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
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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.<br>
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It will be slower than residential service but it has no bandwidth
limitations.<br>
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I'm pretty slow now - I think it's 12Mbps down and less up. <br>
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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".<br>
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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.<br>
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The old 2 wire stuff from AT&T is too brittle. <br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On March 4, 2019 7:24:54 PM EST, Jeff
Hubbs via Ale <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ale@ale.org"><ale@ale.org></a> wrote:
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<p>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.</p>
<p>I have two main drivers that are forcing the decision:</p>
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<li>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.</li>
<li>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.</li>
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<p>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. </p>
<p>It is my understanding that only AT&T and Comcast serve
my street. <br>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>I'm all (rabbit) ears, so let your replies rip. <br>
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<p>- Jeff<br>
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