[lug] colo at home info

[B Giles]

I contacted the business side of the shop, made my needs clear, and was 
offered Comcast Pro (residential).

I don't know if the difference is related to the build out, the salesman, or 
whatever.  But there's no way I'm going to pay twice as much as basic 
service and not have the ability to run public SSH or HTTP servers, and the 
guy I was talking to never got back to me when I made it clear that I need 
unfiltered ports.

As for the IP block, I don't know what they are.  Just that my IP address 
didn't change during the brief time when I supposedly had CP.  That's how I 
knew that the address would be unacceptable.  (I know my block has ports 22 
and 80 blocked.)

Bear

P.S., for what it's worth I'm near Colorado & Foothills.

>From: Michael Deck <deckm at cleansoft.com>
>Reply-To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
>To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us,lug at lug.boulder.co.us
>Subject: Re: [lug] colo at home info
>Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 17:36:56 -0600
>
>At 05:02 PM 8/14/2003, B Giles wrote:
> >A quick recap for those who were wondering what I learned about (cheap) 
>colocation at home options.
> >
> >1) Comcast only seems to have "comcast pro" as an option, which is really 
>no improvement over standard service.  I'm sure it's great if you're a 
>gamer, but it's in the same residential block of IP addresses so you'll 
>have some of your services blocked, you don't have a static IP address 
>("persistent IP address" is not the same), etc.  Colocated systems need 
>faster uploads, not faster downloads, and 5 persistent IP addresses (which 
>are tied to a MAC address so you can't easily stack them on a single piece 
>of hardware) isn't any better than one.
>
>I signed up for the "comcast _business_ pro" service a couple of weeks ago 
>and just put a machine out in the DMZ today. This machine is mostly a file 
>server and I just need SSH to get files from it when I'm on the road. I 
>have tested both SSH and HTTP into this box and have no obvious problems. I 
>don't know whether it's in the Comcast "residential" block of IP's or not. 
>Do you know what that block is?

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