<div dir="ltr">FWIW, I installed comcast's metro ethernet product at my office in Concord and I have to say that I've been very impressed. The product is and support/management is entirely separate from the cable modem (business/residential) group. Cost is more on par with a typical business class ethernet circuit. I pay $2k/month (about a year ago) for a 50Mb (sync) metro ethernet service at my office that has been as reliable as any other office circuit I've bought over the years and was price competitive with the various other options considering the cost to build out connectivity to that office space.<div>
<br></div><div>I agree with the various other comments about if true business class service is what you need. BTW, I don't consider comcast/rcn business to really be business class service but that is very much a matter of semantics and business needs.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Hope this helps.</div><div>Jon</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Brian O'Neill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oneill@oinc.net" target="_blank">oneill@oinc.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">On 5/15/2014 3:00 PM, Steve Meuse wrote:<br>
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On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Rich Braun <<a href="mailto:richb@pioneer.ci.net" target="_blank">richb@pioneer.ci.net</a><br></div><div class="">
<mailto:<a href="mailto:richb@pioneer.ci.net" target="_blank">richb@pioneer.ci.net</a>>> wrote:<br>
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<br>
Honestly, at this point the epitome of price/performance is a race<br>
between<br>
DOCSIS-3 and FIOS. But I think a whole lot more construction is<br>
taking place<br>
with DOCSIS-3 than FIOS, probably because there are several<br>
companies using it<br>
whereas only one company supports FIOS. DOCSIS-3 has the advantage<br>
of lower<br>
cost: it's exceedingly expensive to run fiber to every end-point,<br>
whereas<br>
running RG-6 from a pole-mounted fiber box to several nearby<br>
buildings is<br>
quite inexpensive.<br>
<br>
<br>
(Disclosure: I work for Comcast)<br>
<br>
I believe I read that FIOS is not expanding to any new markets (towns),<br>
but only expanding within towns they currently cover. The same article<br>
stated that the cost had more to do with the capital costs of the<br>
house/curb units vs. the fiber deployment costs.<br>
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I recall this as well. They even sold off some markets, like Northern New England went to Fairpoint.<div class=""><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Astound's consumer-grade service is a tad nicer than Comcast's in<br>
one area:<br>
Comcast does port blocking (including the all-important port 80),<br>
and as near<br>
as I can tell<br>
<br>
<br>
80 is open, I don't know the complete list, but it was orignially<br>
intended to block SMB mounts 137-139, etc.<br>
-Steve<br>
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FiOS Residential blocks port 80 inbound, and port 25 outbound. I vaguely recall port 80 being blocked for the Code Red malware, and since running your own server was technically against the TOS, they left it in place.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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-Brian</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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