On 01/18/2016 01:06 PM, Kent Borg wrote:
P.S. The extra charge for static IP on their web site is a lot and gets a lot worse with speed, makes me toy with the idea of getting two lines (if they are willing, and if Verizon has the copper pairs available on my street): one line that is fast but dynamic IP and one that is slow but static IP. That would be a chance to learn some networking...
Good idea, but good luck with that. Not with the networking, that is a technical problem that can be solved.
The "business class" service you need to run your mail server from Comcast and Verizon so that you could actually run your own mail server is effectively a separate company from their residential services. So to get those two lines from either company you're going to have to have two accounts, call two different phone numbers for support, and inferring a bit, probably run two separate lines to your house (even if they were both FIOS).
And most places that have the "residential" offerings don't actually even offer the "business class" too. You might luck out if you live close to a commercial district.
If your incoming server requirements are low, it's almost certainly cheaper to just have a single "residential" line, and do one of a couple things to solve the rest. DynDNS used to have a MailHop service for $40/yr to forward incoming email traffic to whatever port you wanted (helps defeat Comcast's port 25 block), although I can't find that service anymore. You could always rent a cheap AWS server for $30/mo to forward all kinds of traffic from low static ports like 80 and 25.
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