[ale] State of play re home Internet with static IP

[dev null zero two]

the Better Business Bureau is just yelp from before yelp was around. it's
not a great indicator of anything.

On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 10:26 PM lnxgnome via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> On 3/5/19 3:31 AM, DJ-Pfulio via Ale wrote:
>
> I've been with Comcast Biz for almost a decade now. It is slow AND
> expensive. They bumped up the price another $2 in January.  TV cannot
> run over the same physical COAX as business Internet. Something about
> residential TV restrictions. That means the TV COAX and ISP COAX with
> Comcast will be separate.
>
> Not so slow for me @ 75(90)/15(18) in Cobb, but yes to expensive.
>
> How "separate" do you think they meant?  I had both Residential
> TV/Internet and Business Internet coming into my home/office on the same
> coax for over a year, until I canceled the Residential service.  There
> are/were two dumb/passive coax splitters in the basement.  The first split
> TV and Internet to two locations (TV upstairs, Internet downstairs), and
> the second split the signal between the Comcast Business Gateway and my old
> Motorola SurfBoard SB6121.
>
> That worked fine unless the power went out.  The SB wouldn't re-sync as
> long as the Biz GW was connected.  Just had to disconnect the Biz GW long
> enough for the SB to sync, then reconnect the Biz GW and all was well in
> the world.
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