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<p>"DIRECPATH, LLC, was formed in May 2006 to better serve the
broadband needs of residents living in multifamily communities,
which includes gated communities, apartments, condominiums, and
student housing." <br>
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<p>Gigamonster seems to follow the same mantra, with only service in
"communities". I just don't qualify. Got to wonder what's up
with their BBB rating.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/4/19 9:53 PM, dev null zero two
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<div dir="auto">Gigamonster is the ISP I use. they resell
DirecPath.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 9:51
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text="#000000">Until AT&T gets gonzo gutsy and drops
fiber to demarc wall with 10G symmetrical, they will get
no more money from me.<br>
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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. <br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On March 4, 2019 9:28:01 PM EST,
James Taylor via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">ale@ale.org</a>>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> <font
size="2" face="Dialog">I've had comcast business
for quite some time.</font> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> <font
size="2" face="Dialog">I have 150/20 with 1 phone
#(which I don't actually use) and 5 usable static
for about 180/month.</font> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> <font
size="2" face="Dialog">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.</font> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> <font
size="2" face="Dialog">I have things I can
complain about, but the service has be rock solid.</font>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> <font
size="2" face="Dialog">-jt</font> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> <br>
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<font style="font-size:10pt" face="Dialog"><br>
James Taylor<br>
678-697-9420<br>
<a href="mailto:james.taylor@eastcobbgroup.com"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">james.taylor@eastcobbgroup.com</a><br>
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</font>>>> Jeff Hubbs via Ale <<a
href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">ale@ale.org</a>>
3/4/2019 7:24 PM >>><br>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> 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 style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> I have two
main drivers that are forcing the decision: </p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> 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. </p>
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<li>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> 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. </p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> 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 style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> It is my
understanding that only AT&T and Comcast serve
my street.<br>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> 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 style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> 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 style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> 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 style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> 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 style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> I'm all
(rabbit) ears, so let your replies rip.<br>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> - Jeff<br>
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