The other Will here. I also recommend Cox over Bellsouth DSL. I agree that it is expensive but I have very little trouble here in the northern end of the state with their working with me. I have a number of commercial sites that they exclude from port blocking at my request. I use SSH all the time without trouble and even vpn connections. As for NAT their "modems" are configured as bridged so NAT at that point is out of the question but with a small router attached to the "modem" you can do NAT to your hearts content. The last time I read (with an attorney) their accepted use policy it did not preclude that practice. After all their true expense is IP addresses and bandwidth. If you are presenting one MAC address to them you are conserving their address space and they limit bandwidth so that is not a factor. As for static versa Dynamic addresses, up here static addresses seem to re-lease forever. I have had the same dynamic address at home for many months. Every once in a while they do something that scrambles them.
Will Lowe ----- Original Message ----- From: "will hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 11:22 AM Subject: Re: [brlug-general] ISP recommendation > Yep, that's about it. You will be lucky to get a DSL at all because Bell South keeps the database of "availability". Your chances of getting non Bell South DSL are vanishingly small. > > The bad news is that Cox is the only other game in town and they offer little more than an expensive fast download. They block ports and crimp upload to DSL speed and lower. People have had trouble with packet losses and are unable to run various Microsoft networking packages. SSH is reputed to work, though persistent connections may be impossible because Cox pushes new IP address every 8 to 24 hours. Even the very expensive "Commercial" services come with port blocks for email and special arrangements must be made to use anything but Cox's smtp servers. Cox's pop server is reported to not follow RFCs and this keeps some mail clients from working. It's better than DSL for maintaining Debian, but I imagine Cox will figure a way to block that one day soon. > > Welcome to IT hell, Bryce. You are in the grip of two mindless monopolies bent more on preventing services than providing them. You might be better off with dial-up to your place of work and sneaker-net. There are several people on this list working with ham radio and many with wireless dreams. > > On 2003.07.21 16:11 James Kuhns wrote: > > I'd recommend COX, I had a major issue with BellSouth (in Lafayette > > area) which left a real bad taste in my mouth ... [typical anti-competitive practice combined with incompetence matching my own experience with BellSouth] > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
