On Wed, Jan 3, 2024 at 12:17 AM Ron Braithwaite <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have Ziply and am exceptionally happy with them. > > When we bought this house and switched from Frontier to Ziply, we > discovered that Frontier had *LITERALLY* run the fiver ON TOP OF THE GROUND > from the street to our house when the neighbor cut our fiber connection > with a weed whacker. Although management changed, Ziply *IS* Frontier, or what Frontier was. Frontier sold off some of its markets several years ago, and Ziply was the buyer, and investment group in the Seattle area from what I recall. So, you didn't switch from Frontier to Ziply so much as Frontier became Ziply. "Switching" implies it was your choice, and as much as I wish we had more choices, we generally don't. > We discovered this in the morning, a few hours later, > someone from Ziply came and checked out the situation. The next day, Ziply > was here with a horizontal boring machine and strung new fiber underground > in plastic conduit and we were back in the air in less than 48 hours. I > like them a whole bunch and I don't mind spending $60/mo for reliable > gigabit. > Laying service drops on the ground is regrettably not uncommon. Jason Bergstrom had a similar service drop installation from Comcast. I heard a story from someone (an internet access activist) on the east coast whose cable internet service would go down every time the landscapers mowed her lawn. Instead of installing it properly, they just laid a new coax ... back on the ground! My mom has Ziply now, and it has worked well. I just today sent back their router, which we needed for her landline phone, after we ported the number over to Ooma. She has 50/50Mbps service for $40/month, which is completely adequate for what she does. Ziply internet was just $20/month for the first year. The landline was costing us $30-something, and about to go up due to an increase in the router lease fee. Ooma is a little over $10/month. I don't recall how stable her IP address is. As a low bound, it hasn't changed in the last week. It might change on reboots. One thing missing from Ziply as recently as last spring when I last inquired is any IPv6 provisioning. You can get free IPv6 tunnels (or used to be able to) from places like Hurricane Electric's tunnelbroker, and perhaps others, although they can bottleneck your connections. Comcast provisions IPv6 routinely, your gateway device just has to ask for it and boom, you have a /56 (or something similar) provisioned to allocate to your internal networks as you wish. -- Russell Senior [email protected]
