Comment It's not all about speed... (Score 1) 126
I miss Comcast since switching to RCN in the Boston area. :( My wife loves the cubbies on WGN and I love my wife, so we switched to RCN.
Regrettably, Comcast's 6dn/0.75up for $60 turned out to be a better deal for nerds and non-windows users (aka anyone not afraid of hosting their own ssh/web/etc).
With RCN we have 10dn/0.75up for $50, but RCN charges us a $20 penalty to unblock incoming port 80. If you do end up paying their ransom money, you can't have multiple ip's on RCN with port 80 access. Back on Comcast, we didn't need NAT, port mapping, or any of those other hacks for our computers.
Btw, to those who say "the $20 is for a static ip", I say Comcast never changed my "dynamic" ips for years.
Regrettably, Comcast's 6dn/0.75up for $60 turned out to be a better deal for nerds and non-windows users (aka anyone not afraid of hosting their own ssh/web/etc).
With RCN we have 10dn/0.75up for $50, but RCN charges us a $20 penalty to unblock incoming port 80. If you do end up paying their ransom money, you can't have multiple ip's on RCN with port 80 access. Back on Comcast, we didn't need NAT, port mapping, or any of those other hacks for our computers.
Btw, to those who say "the $20 is for a static ip", I say Comcast never changed my "dynamic" ips for years.
