[olug] Cox High Speed Internet

[Ben Dinger]

On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 05:18:17PM -0700, Eric Lusk wrote:
> My only problem with Cox is when I had them before
> they blocked port 80 :(  I run a web server, so ended
> up with Qwest's new 1500 down/1024 up package.
> I guess you CAN get the port 80 block taken off, but
> from what I heard it's somewhat spendy, have to call
> it a "business" account.

That new Qwest package is by far THE SHIT.  I saved my company several hundred dolares a month by going to the 1.5/1 (or 896) package in our Fremont offsite instead of our old 768/768 circuit.  According to Qwest (when we signed up), to get the port blockage off all you need is a static IP block.  No biggie there. 

Oh, and, it became a conveinent place for me to put my web/email server due to extermely low utilization of the connection there, and well - ALLTEL'S DSL TIERS SUCK THE BALLS AND ASS. Oh, did I say that? :) 

Anyway, I really, really, wish that we could get the speed options in Lincoln that you omaha folk are blessed with.  The best economy-wise we can do is TWC's 3MB/384k Cable.  Alltel's "best" upload offering is the 512k/512k DSL "ultra".  They should be shot. 

Ahem.. anyway, heh.. lucky bastards ;). 

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Ben Dinger
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