layer9Premium
join:2007-02-18
Front Royal, VA | Its NOT business The only thing "business" about this service other than maybe a higher tier of technical support, is the price.
It is completely unusable to any business, small, medium or large, who want to offer any kind of web enabled services.
Its the "dynamic IP".That sounds great, but what its designed to do is keep businesses from actually using their service for anything else other than "surfing the net". And what business makes its living off their employee's, surfing the net?
The Dynamic IP is designed to curtail any real business use of the circuit. At least if they offered a single static IP, small businesses could port forward. Dynamic IPs make it pretty much impossible to offer any real web-based services. Companies who want to offer their own services to employee's or customers are not going to be able to use this service. Therefore to call it a "business" service is misnomer. Unless of course your business makes its money off your employee's playing Call of Duty on line.
When FIOS is offered with static IPs and the ability to at least purchase additional blocks, even at a premium, then they will have Business Class FIOS. But for now, all they have is residential service that they charge businesses more to use. |
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| said by layer9: Dynamic IPs make it pretty much impossible to offer any real web-based services. I've been running various servers since '97 or '98, always on a DHCP or PPPoE line. Just need to use a dynamic IP to DNS service. Of course, that might not be good enough for a business, but it does work. |
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layer9Premium
join:2007-02-18
Front Royal, VA | You're right.
Home user workarounds are not "good enough" for a business.
The port limitations due to the single IP limit the standard port usages.
We're fully aware of these SOHO work arounds like port forwarding in conjunction with Dynamic DNS. That's why I mentioned it, which you'll see if you go back and re-read the comment.
But you were correct in stating that these SOHO work arounds are not sufficient for any real business needs.
These are NOT "Business Class Circuits" and Verizon is not offering a true Business Service. They're offering a Residential service and charging more money for it by calling it a business service. |
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 TzaleProud Libertarian ConservativePremium
join:2004-01-06
NYC Metro | reply to layer9
said by layer9:The only thing "business" about this service other than maybe a higher tier of technical support, is the price. It is completely unusable to any business, small, medium or large, who want to offer any kind of web enabled services. Its the "dynamic IP".That sounds great, but what its designed to do is keep businesses from actually using their service for anything else other than "surfing the net". And what business makes its living off their employee's, surfing the net? The Dynamic IP is designed to curtail any real business use of the circuit. At least if they offered a single static IP, small businesses could port forward. Dynamic IPs make it pretty much impossible to offer any real web-based services. Companies who want to offer their own services to employee's or customers are not going to be able to use this service. Therefore to call it a "business" service is misnomer. Unless of course your business makes its money off your employee's playing Call of Duty on line. When FIOS is offered with static IPs and the ability to at least purchase additional blocks, even at a premium, then they will have Business Class FIOS. But for now, all they have is residential service that they charge businesses more to use. Plenty of businesses would be fine without a static IP... A lot of businesses just need a fast connection for downloading / uploading files from their remote server in a data center or to other businesses... Not to mention the availability of DNS redirection services, though that might appear unprofessional.
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tlcbob
join:2001-07-11
Harrisburg, PA | reply to layer9
Actually, I checked into it last year and at that time, the business FIOS had a CSR (up-time) guarantee of something like 99.95%. That was the main distinguishing factor from home service. Also, as I recall, the fixed IP addresses were not expensive. |
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I have had Business FiOS since the fiber plant was turned over to provisioning in my neighboorhood. 99 bux/mo gets me a STATIC /29 and 15/2.. I am calling to see if they can upgrade me yet.. My biggest bitch right now is that the rippoffs want to CHARGE for more IP's. If I had a freakin T1 with them I could have a /24 if I could justify it. I need a /28.
I should not have to pay for it... |
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 kontosxyzzy
join:2001-10-04
West Henrietta, NY | said by unixwolf: I need a /28. I should not have to pay for it... I need a new car... |
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