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kudos:3 | reply to iansltx
Re: That's nice but.. Lol.. I'll take that as condolences.. 
Before I bought this house, I lived in Qwest territory. To be honest, I was MORE than happy with that service. I only used it for my servers. It was a 1.5 / 896 line; ROCK solid! I was able to get stand alone service with statics for about $55 a month and was happier than a pig in slop. I also had the comcast connection, Residential service, for all the desktops. Talk about a nightmare. At first, it was great, but, I was one of the lucky people with an apartment complex on my node and it wasn't the best complex either, if you know what I mean. LOTS of theft going on there and lots of ingress into the system which took our modems down all the time. (Took the internet and phones down all the time) Finally, we got that fixed but then I moved.
I think Embarq/Century.. WHO EVER they are these days, sells things differently in each area. I can get a stand-alone residential service but no statics or any reverse DNS service. That's one thing I LOVED about Qwest.. they'd give you statics and reverse on any connection. Speeds sucked, for for an email server and general FTP/Web, it was great. Again, Century, up here, wants you to step through all their products.. so I just said screw it.. took Comcast business service for $69 a month. It's been great so far.. just have had a problem or two but nothing the lines techs couldn't take care of.. think it had to do with the Business Class expansion construction they were doing out here. Also, it doesn't hurt that many techs live in my area both home and line and that I have an employee living with me either.  But, besides all that, the service has been stable with out any intervention from inside the house if you know what I mean. I also did all the internal wiring myself when the house was built so it was done correctly.
Oh yea.. I wasn't impressed with the Embarq/Century speeds for the price either... and I TOTALLY didn't want their phone service JUST to have business service. |
