@phnt @bonifartius @slashb

> everyone I've talked to from them so far was either a smug idiot and/or annoying sales guy.

I had this experience with AT&T (which is just the SBC/PacBell merger; they bought the AT&T name for a song once AT&T had divested itself of enough divisions to be small enough to acquire): very explicit on the phone, asked the guy several times. I receive the gear, start using it, reboot the modem to confirm, and the IP address changes. Time Warner Business had a reasonable guy, I talked to him and asked, "You understand why I wouldn't want the IP for ns1 to change, right?" and he laughed. Their residential service was not great but the business line was excellent until they merged with Charter and formed Spectrum; I don't recommend Spectrum Business.

> And not something small, the whole republic had no connectivity on their network the last four times this happened in the last 10 months.

Goddamn.