[kwlug disc.] Rogers ISP - cost competitive?

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

On Wednesday 13 June 2007 6:51 pm, Unsolicited wrote:
> They have, say, 6 tiers, 3 consumer and 3 business. Business as in

Be careful; you *can not* get business (i.e. no bandwidth caps) service at a 
residential address.  I've tried.  I even run a business from the residential 
address.  No dice.

> running a server is no against AUP. Only the highest has a static IP
> address, which, well, we'll just not go there ... [how can you offer a
> server service and not have a static IP, well, ... never mind.] (Yes,
> I know, Dynamic DNS and all that, but still ...)

While Rashkae is correct that the IPs don't change often, they can (and do) 
change more often than after major outages.  I help out a friend who's on 
Rogers, and his IP's changed three times in the last four months.  I know 
this because I have an A record on mixdown.ca for him, and he has to tell me 
whenever his IP changes so I can update the record.  :-)

(yes, automatic, yes dyndns, it's just not painful enough to automate it yet)

Before then, I think it changed once in ten months.

> Are these prices cost competitive in this K-W area for the speed provided?

They're about par.  There are wireless providers, but I am not a fan of 
wireless for anything really critical.  You can get fiber too, but that's 
serious business use and I think prices start at over $300/mo, but at least 
there's no idiocy about caps or broadband aggregators or DOCSIS head nodes to 
worry about.

-A.