[colug-432] ISP Recommendation

[Stephen P. Molnar]

Many thanks for your note and comments.

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-----Original Message-----
From: colug-432-bounces at colug.net [mailto:colug-432-bounces at colug.net] On
Behalf Of Stephen Potter
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 5:01 PM
To: Central OH Linux User Group - 432xx
Subject: Re: [colug-432] ISP Recommendation


On 1/16/2015 1:48 PM, Rob Stampfli wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 10:36:07AM -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
>> I have decided to look for another ISP.  I don't want telephone 
>> service, nor cable TV - just iinternet connectivity!
>>
>> I would appreciate recommendations!
> I can recommend WOW.  Had TW for years when they were the only game in 
> town (Pickerington), and pricey.

My personal experience has been that both TWC and WOW are wholly dependent
on where you.  I had TWC (Insight) for 15+ years and rarely had a problem
with them.  I recently switched to WOW because they offered 50M while TWC
was still only 20M in my area.  While I was with TWC, I essentially had a
static IP (I went for better than a year at a time with the same IP on a
regular basis) and have run my own web and mail server the entire time.
With WOW, my IP changes more often (I've been with them 4 months and it's
changed twice so far), but I'm still able to run evreything without
problems.  When I first got hooked up, it took about 4 hours of working with
their tech support to get them to understand what I was doing and to get the
router set in bridge mode and have the firewall turned off, but after that,
it was fine.

My in-laws have gone back and forth with both TWC and WOW every year or so
when their service had problems and couldn't be easily resolved (although,
mostly it was TV-cable issues and not internet service issues).  Recently,
with WOW, they had their phone number changed under them without any notice.
A number they've had for 7 years.  When they called to ask about it, they
were told it was "an AT&T number and AT&T requested it back".

-spp
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