[193283] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SoCal FIOS outage(?) / static IP readdressing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Story)
Fri Jan 6 15:45:31 2017
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Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 15:45:18 -0500
From: Robert Story <rstory@tislabs.com>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
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On Fri, 6 Jan 2017 11:55:56 -0800 Owen wrote:
OD> > On Jan 6, 2017, at 08:21 , Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> wrote:
OD> > At a past address I had Comcast Business (cable modem) service at
OD> > a residential address, and then later downgraded it to Comcast
OD> > Residential service.
OD> > [...]
OD> > The differences I could see:
OD> > - Cable Modem
OD> > - Residential: could rent a consumer grade or BYO (I did, a good o=
ne)
OD> > - Business: Comcast supplied and required their better-than-averag=
e,
OD> > modem. It could be in bridge mode though. =20
OD> - San Jose, I was able to use BYO. Had to escalate several levels and =
pull several teeth to get
OD> bridge mode on the Comcast unit while I had it.
I'm using BYO on business class in Atlanta. I thing that a static IP
requires that you use their modem. I'm happy with DHCP - my assigned IP
hasn't changed in years. And as you say, I can plug in multiple boxes and
each get's its own public IPv4 address.
OD> > Ultimately the reason to buy business class at a residential address
OD> > (and I think the Prosumer description is correct) is generally faster
OD> > repair times.
That's why I have it. Though if you BYOM, you'll likely have trouble
getting service as they'll blame it on your 'unspoorted' device (even
thought it's listed on supported devices page). I had to rent one of their
modems for about 3 months once while they struggled to find something in the
neighborhood with a flaky power supply that caused intermittent outages.
Robert
--=20
Senior Software Engineer @ Parsons
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