I do not know all the details, but $115 per month for 75Mb/s internet does not show/prove any ability on your part to negotiate a price. On the contrary.
If you think that that is good deal, perhaps because of the 5 IPv4s - I would look into AWS or using IPv6 + DNS + 1Gb/s @ $70/month CenturyLink. For $57.50 per month for the next 3 years fixed contract, I will teach you how to do it and even maintain the setup for you. -T On Wed, Aug 1, 2018, 11:27 AM Tom Sharples <[email protected]> wrote: > I've had the basic slow Comcast business service with 5 static IPs for > years. I recently called them and threatened to go over to centurylink > if they didn't give me more bandwidth. After about 15 minutes of > haranguing they did agree to give me 75 down and 20 up for three years > at just another $20 a month (so $115 total) which is around $30 / mo > less than their regular price for that package over here in the Couve. > So there is some ability to negotiate. > > Since making that upgrade I have also noticed that every once in a while > my upstream speed is way faster than downstream. Just tested it at 101 > mb/s. Not sure why. > > Tom S. > > > On 7/28/2018 4:44 PM, Russell Senior wrote: > > My main advice is, as companies, they are all horrible. The service > itself > > is usually okay, the prices and policies are all "take-it-or-leave-it" > > (Comcast might be more likely to cut temporary special deals, but you > > usually have to have long telephone conversations every 6 months or so to > > keep them in place). CenturyLink has some innovative (i.e. fraudulent) > > billing practices that they are currently being sued over. So, shop > around. > > Play one off against the other to the extent you can. DSL is a dead-end > > product, so I'd avoid it. Maybe some day we'll have a municipal fiber > > system, but not for a few years under the best case scenario. I have the > > CenturyLink gigabit service. They are fraudulently charging me $5/month > > more than they said they would. No transfer cap, I paid extra for a > static > > IP ($75 setup + $10/month). Total on the last bill was $95, but should > be > > $90. I rarely see more than ~30Mbps from any real service, but > speedtest.net > > says I'm getting close-ish to a gigabit. Usually upstream speeds register > > higher than downstream. If you are going to upload big files, fiber has a > > practical advantage over cable, which tends to have pretty low upstream > > speeds (which they don't talk very much about because "you are a > consumer, > > dammit"). CenturyLink has lower speed tiers for less money, but I > believe > > there are monthly caps. > > > > Good luck! > > > > > > On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 3:32 PM, mitch Stanley < > [email protected]> > > wrote: > > > >> Hi, We are moving back to SW Portland , & we only had the choice of > Comcast > >> Or Century Link for Broadband, I believe I'm still restricted to them > but > >> if you have a link ,advice ect please email > >> > >> me directly Or post on PLUG. > >> > >> Thank you in Advance , Mitch Stanley > >> _______________________________________________ > >> PLUG mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
