Since it is never down and you get speeds that meet your needs it doesn't seem like there is a lot of reason to switch. I will share why I switched though.
I have a 22/4 business connection with Comcast in Mountain View and it has been very reliable. I do most of the same things you do (PS3, Dropbox, streaming from Europe, etc) and the reasons I moved to the business connection was for the static address, very fast response times for any repairs, and no bandwidth cap. I work from home from time to time, and am oncall regularly so I need a very reliable connection. I use a VPS with Linode for my actual hosting and as a backup SOCKS proxy for accessing websites while traveling incase the country blacklists domains or the website has a licensing restriction preventing non-US IP addresses from accessing content. This is also nice to have so I can turn off my machines at home when I am going to be gone for 2+ weeks so I don't have to pay for power when all I may have needed was a proxy. On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:17 AM, Ragi Burhum <r...@burhum.com> wrote: > Hello list, > > I currently get Internet through my cable company (Astound in SF) where I > get 18MB down and 2MB up. Realistically speaking, I get 14MB down and 1.8MB > during peak hours. Believe it or not, my service has never been down - or at > least I have never noticed. I run syncing processes with my > Amazon-cloud-hosted servers every hour through cron on my Ubuntu home > server. I've never had a need to do anything remotely close to having to > flashing my router with VMs running Windows 3.1. I play games and stream > high definition content all the time on my PS3, XBOX 360, Wii, Google TV and > other Internet-enabled devices. I use Dropbox to sync data with my clients, > skype to do video conferencing with them and Facetime through my iPhone to > talk to my gf. Two of my development Android-based phones periodically grab > updated vectors of crowdsourced street data for the entire world through > wifi every week. I can ssh to most of my servers through dynamic DNS > services and whenever I am in Europe, I can use that functionality to stream > content to my hotel room. Whenever I am not at home, I use my Rovio ( > http://www.wowwee.com/en/products/tech/telepresence/rovio/rovio) to move > around the house and check that everything is OK - no matter where I am in > the world. > > I do all of this for $45/month and no contract. > > Is there a valid, *reasonable*, argument why I should be looking at > datacenters or other ISP solutions? > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > >
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