Business class cable modem service...

[Jmmsbnd007]

Does anyone have this? I emailed cox on saturday and I'm too lazy to wait for a response tomorrow. How much does it usually cost? Speeds? Additional features? Anyone here using cox business class? Thanks

 

[Jmmsbnd007]

 

[ViRGE]

Mabey some faster speeds, and they might allow you to use VPN(some providers forbid, but not block it under their cheaper plans).

 

[LuNoTiCK]

It may all be the same, just costs more.

 

[Jmmsbnd007]

Originally posted by: ViRGE
Mabey some faster speeds, and they might allow you to use VPN(some providers forbid, but not block it under their cheaper plans).

Know anyone who has this type of service?

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: Jmmsbnd007

Know anyone who has this type of service?

Honestly, no. Buisness class cable has never been big, @Home sold off @Work for only 2 or 3 million dollars. Closest thing I've heard of this recently are the tiered service levels such as what AT&T wants to do, 2x as much for a power user, but you get 3mb/sec vs. 1.5mb/sec(although for the record, I hit 3mb/sec under @home before AT&T cut me down:|).

 

[Jmmsbnd007]

Originally posted by: ViRGE

Originally posted by: Jmmsbnd007

Know anyone who has this type of service?

Honestly, no. Buisness class cable has never been big, @Home sold off @Work for only 2 or 3 million dollars. Closest thing I've heard of this recently are the tiered service levels such as what AT&T wants to do, 2x as much for a power user, but you get 3mb/sec vs. 1.5mb/sec(although for the record, I hit 3mb/sec under @home before AT&T cut me down:|).

Hmm... that sucks

 

[BillGates]

Typically business class service will give you better uploads and you might possibly have a synchronous connection as opposed to the horribly lopsided 3.0Mb down/128k up that I used to have with @home... Depressing...

Anyway, this service may also allow you to run web servers, mail servers, FTP's, etc as I know for sure Charter here blocks all common ports including FTP ports, http ports, and mail ports...

In any case, if you are looking for tons of data transfer, including a huge amount of uploading, the price may be worth it, but generally it is a lot more money for business service.

 

[Linflas]

I have no idea how it works with Cox but for Comcast they offer something called Comcast Pro. With that service your caps are raised to 3.5/384, you get 5 IP addresses, and you do not pay a rental charge for the modem. In addition you are entitled to use VPN with the Pro service. It is still against the TOS to run a server even under Pro and the cost is $95.00 per month.

 

[crystal]

Usually, Business level service differs from home level service is the level of services offer, i.e. guarantee to up 24x7 and 99.9% uptime, guarantee up/down speed, special phone number to reach higher level tech support, that kind of stuffs. If nothing goes wrong you will not see much of the difference. It is when thing goes wrong that you will see a big difference.

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: crystal
Usually, Business level service differs from home level service is the level of services offer, i.e. guarantee to up 24x7 and 99.9% uptime, guarantee up/down speed, special phone number to reach higher level tech support, that kind of stuffs. If nothing goes wrong you will not see much of the difference. It is when thing goes wrong that you will see a big difference.

I would think that myself, but I can't see how the cable companies can provide any better service to buisness users than residential users. IFF the users all share the same node, then the uptime for a buisness user is no better than a residential user if it comes to a general outage; and in the converse, residential downtime is no worse than buisness, as fixing the node for the buisnes user fixes it for the residential users. Now, email would be better I imagine, but unless there's seperate nodes, it's not a real guarantee.

 

[bozo1]

Time Warner Cable, at least locally, doesn't guarantee uptime with their business class. What they do offer is higher up/down speeds, 1500/768, 2000/1000, 4000/1000, more IP addresses, more POP accounts if you want/need them.

However, they do guarantee you will get the speeds you are paying for, even if they have to put you on your own node.