[geeks] Why I hate Verizon Online

John Francini francini at mac.com
Tue Dec 5 16:02:36 CST 2006


Comcast Workplace Standard is $95/mo. to start.

<http://www.comcast.com/business/Availability.ashx?service=Workplace% 
20Standard%20-%20NE>

1 or 5 static IPs are "optional".  Dunno how much extra that costs; I  
think you'd need to phone them to find out.

The way their Ts and Cs are written, it appears that if you have one  
or more static IPs, you can run servers 'legally'.

j

On 5 Dec 2006, at 16:51, Phil Stracchino wrote:

> David Muran-de Assereto wrote:
>> On Dec 5, 2006, at 9:10 AM, Mike F wrote:
>> <snip>
>>> US DSL in general, and SBC/AT&T in particular, does not have any
>>> transfer limits. Cable internet service, however, does; download/
>>> upload
>>> too much on cable and you'll get a nastygram from the ISP.
>> <snip>
>>
>> Depends. I have Cox Business services over cable, and they never mess
>> with me; I've got 6 down and 2 up, and it's only marginally more
>> expensive than their consumer offering. The consumer-grade has a
>> higher download speed (11Mbps, I think), but it much less reliable.
>
> Huh.  I didn't look for business cable offerings.  6 down 2 up, at a
> decent price, is worth investigating if there's static IP offered.
>
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