[ale] Comcast Business Class experiences?

[Jeff Hubbs]

Scott -

One line of bull I was sold when I signed up for U-Verse was the 
availability of static IP for a small fee.  When I called post-install 
to try to get that set up, they told me it wasn't available.  I brought 
a server home from QTS on the basis of that feature only to find they'd 
baited-and-switched me.  What do you know about that?

- Jeff

scott mcbrien wrote:
> Chris,
>
> Have you priced AT&T's UVerse?  The DSL speeds are up to 10down/2up 
> which I've been getting and occasionally will operate at 12down/4up.  
> They give you a non-nat'ed IP.  The downside is the initial setup is 
> painful, but only a day, and the equipment they give you (a 2wire 
> router) is known for it's UI suck.  Now that I've got all the kinks 
> worked out it's not bad.  The upside is that the link has been very, 
> very reliable.  I'm on a res plan.
>
> -Scott
>
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Chris Woodfield 
> <rekoil at semihuman.com <mailto:rekoil at semihuman.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     So sadly, I think it's time to ditch Speakeasy - can't justify the
>     cost anymore, especially since I haven't been able to get a full 6Mbps
>     in a long time. The last national outage kinda sealed the deal for
>     me...I'm in Midtown Atlanta, if that helps...
>
>     So, I'm looking at Comcast's "Business Class" service - from talking
>     to a rep, I'm looking at saving about $30/month if I go with their
>     6Mbps/1Mbps service and get 5 static IPs (The speakeasy plan I was on
>     included 4, and gives me 768K up). I can make do with a single static
>     and shave off another $5/month, but I'm not keen on having to set up
>     port forwarding.
>
>     So, a couple questions -
>
>     How reliable/responsive *is* the Business Class service compared to
>     Comcast residential? I've heard the myriad horror stories, but they
>     all seem to come from the residential customers. Any insights/
>     experiences from Business customers here?
>
>     Does Comcast apply bandwidth caps/port blocking to Business Class
>     customers?
>
>     How is the CPE set up - I've seen forum posts suggesting that it's not
>     a true bridge, and that even a static IP is set up as some sort of 1-
>     to-1 NAT on the CPE. This will break my 6in4 tunneling (unless the CPE
>     can terminate the tunnel), so I'd like to know if it can be set up in
>     a true bridging mode.
>
>     All in all, think it's worth the money I'd be saving to make the move?
>
>     Thanks in advance...
>
>     -C
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