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<div dir="auto">I had Comcast business class for a long time. It remained relatively solid once I helped them debug a router fail over config issue that was causing the service not to fail over when the primary router went down. Oh, and when I was able to get them on the phone during a neighborhood power outage so they could find the fiber node battery that was dead. However even tho I was supposed to have a 4hr SLA they rarely lived up to that expectation. Oh, and they were expensive. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I signed up for AT&T 1g fiber as soon as it became available. My deal is $70/mo for life, plus $15/mo for a /29, all in (no additional hardware fees). So about half of what I was paying Comcast for 20x download and 100x upload. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">One thing I will point out however is that for real world usage I never see more than 200-250mbps. Even when I torrent a centos DVD, which should be able to saturate, it won't. My Comcast network was never fast enough to test how they would compare, but it feels like AT&T interconnects are not as robust. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Still, I am happy with the AT&T service. I've only had outages due to trees or bug machines ripping or breaking the fiber. In those cases I have sometimes had a multi day outage waiting for a tech to repair. But beyond those issues the service has been solid. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Oh, they will even let you insert rDNS records for your /29!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I have not tried to play with their IPv6 service lately. I did a couple years ago, but I couldn't pull more than 1-2mbps through it, which made it completely useless behind an ostensibly 1g (or even 250mbps) pipe. So I gave up on that. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Oh, I also configured my network so that the modem is not in my data path. This way I am not bitten by their nat table limits. I was testing with a colleague and they were able to throw me off the network by filling the nat table from the outside! Or I could do it inside by having local caching nameservers. Oops. Well, that's no longer a problem for me. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Happy Linuxing everyone. </div><div id="aqm-signature" dir="auto" style="color: black;"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-derek</div><div dir="auto">Sent using my mobile device. Please excuse any typos. </div></div><div dir='auto'><br></div>
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<p style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-family: sans-serif; margin: 8pt 0;">On July 18, 2020 8:43:58 AM Jim Kinney via Ale <ale@ale.org> wrote:</p>
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The connectivity being solid is a big plus. I've had 3 outages in 10 years with comcast. One was my typo in the firewall and their engineer sat on the phone testing packets with me. The second was a storm that dropped a tree across wires ripping down everything. The last one was last week. No idea what that was. I called, they beat the sla by an hour. Something on their end. In fact, the automated calling process informed me they knew of an outage impacting my service as soon as I connected. Got the "all clear" text about 3 hours later.<br><br>I will pursue this with more data from at&t. It's sounding like a decent move.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On July 17, 2020 8:54:13 PM EDT, "Jeremy T. Bouse" <jeremy.bouse@undergrid.net> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">That was the base price I paid for my AT&T GigaPower 1GB fiber connection out in Paulding County. $60/month for the service and then I paid an extra $15 to have static IP block. After the first year it went up $20 as the discount pricing I signed up for was $20/month off for the first year and an additional $20 off for the life of my service. So it then went to $80/month plus the $15/month for the static IP block. I didn't have any issues with the connectivity. I did have some issues working to put my network behind their router using my Cisco ASA 55xx but once I had that worked out it was solid.<div><br></div><div>Now I'm doing in Osceola County Florida and my only option is Spectrum at $100+/month for comparable bandwidth and without the static IP block as I don't have my servers in-house any more.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 7:21 PM Jim Kinney via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I'm certain they will screw up something but that's a good price. Comcast business has sucked out a crapton of cash over the years and I'm feeling cheap. Might keep hosting <a href="http://ale.org" target="_blank">ale.org</a> if the cost goes down.<br><br>Please snark comments until happiness returns. Or beer. Or both.<br>-- <br>"no government by experts in which the masses do not have the chance to inform the experts as to their needs can be anything but an oligarchy managed in the interests of the few.” - John Dewey_______________________________________________<br>
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