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I'd be very interested in reading about what you're doing with your home network, and how much you're paying for their services.

When I last looked, Comcast charged around $200/mo for 250Mbps down / 20Mbps up, unlimited bandwidth, and a static IP. At the time it seemed too much, but now I pay around $150 for for 130Mbps down / 13Mbps up, unlimited bandwidth, and a dynamic IP. So I might have to give it a bit more serious consideration.

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Where do you live with those completely insane prices? Spectrum(TimeWarner) in New York is $60 for 100/10. Which usually pegs at 120/12 any time of the day I use it.

I live in Texas, it has comparably bad pricing.

As the other reply said - Texas. I'm in Houston. If I lived in another part of town, I could get AT&T gigabit for $100ish a month, but my house was built in '57 and my only options for Internet right now are Comcast or (slow) AT&T DSL.

Public-facing email/web/etc server (that replaced my colo box), everything else is behind a NAT "router" that also uses one of the static IPs. I do some minor web hosting for friends, etc.

I started out with their 27/7 plan, then for years had 50 down/10 up, but I recently talked with their retention department and managed to upgrade to 150/20 with my same five statics, for $140-150ish/month. No bandwidth caps (it's not even metered) or anything.

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