[PLUG] ISP/Static IP for SOHOs

[Christian Bewley]

Kris,

Fios is a pretty good deal for
30 mg for about $200 bucks...
if you go with their middle of the road it is pretty good....
15mg down / 2 mg up for about $50...
the cheap stuff is going for $40 bucks and is the same rate as comcast 
high speed....
5 down / 2 up

The cool thing about it is that it will drive the cost of high speed 
down. Until now there really hasn't been any competition for comcast for 
those who have a choice and are data transfer informed

Still... I think I will buy into the whole fios thing as it will 
probably be cheaper per bit than cable is now.

christian

Kris wrote:
> Robert McIntosh wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like to hear from some PLUGers about ISPs that provide leased static
>> IPs
>> for small home businesses.  Please provide rough price/month, service
>> quality (customer and uptime), and any other comments.
>>     
>
> Recently, I have experience with two providers, one local.
>
> At home, I've been with EasyStreet since fall of 2004.  At the time I
> pleaded with them to offer a product to match the Verizon 3Mb/1Mb
> offering, which they did, and I think I was one of the first on this
> package before it was finalized.
>
> One static IP, downloads are fine, upstream is ~600-700Kb.  Support is
> friendly, they will open the ticket with Verizon for you if there is an
> outage, and every outage has been within Verizon's network.  Line+ISP
> comes to ~$170/mo.
>
> My company, OpenSourcery, has service provided by Comcast.  As a small
> business and supporter of small business I have to hate Comcast, but
> unfortunately they have exceeded every expectation (which in retrospect
> was very low to begin with).  We have the small business service,
> 8Mb/1Mb, and a small block of static IP's.
>
> A couple outages in the last 9 months.  Staff was better than expected
> when I needed to set my reverse DNS for our static IP's.  Cost is ~$165/mo.
>
> The downstream screams.  I constantly see 750-1100MByte/s downloads,
> exceeding the advertised 8Mb/s down.  The upload is wimpy, and as we
> depend on upstream more I may seek alternatives.
>
> I'm hoping DSL will catch up to the cable company.  Wish I could find a
> cheap DS3.  Unfortunately for EasyStreet and my ethics, FIOS is too
> tempting if it arrives.  I also think asynchronous downstream/upstream
> rates are a disservice to the Internet, but NANOGites and carriers would
> disagree.
>
>