On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Sam Cayze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am thinking of throwing a business class cable modem service at our site > for a backup connection in case the main goes out.
We've been using Comcast Workplace or whatever they're calling it now for about six months here in northern MA, US. It's been pretty good to us. No noticed outages in that time. Pretty speedy. $60/month for their middle tier. A single static IP address cost us $5/month extra. I basically see it as cheap, disposable bandwidth -- we just use it for web browsing traffic. For that, it's fine. Email and VPN still come in through a symmetric, fixed-wireless feed from a real ISP. "It's not that I like Comcast; it's just that I hate Verizon more." -- me > I think it's like 8Mbps/1Mbps. 16Mpbs with powerboost. The thing you have to realize with Comcast is the speeds they quote you have only a vague link to reality. Our paperwork says 12M/2M on one sheet, 6M/768k on another (and calls out "SpeedBoost" to 15M, so it's not that). Nobody I talk to seems to be able to explain what's what. And since they do not commit to give you *anything*, those numbers don't really matter anyway. They could pass you through a 28k modem and they'd still be fulfilling their contract. So as long you're satisfied with "cheap, and fast for the money", they're good. Our actual performance seems to be around 5M max (incoming) most of the time. -- Ben ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
