I would not say its slower than dial-up , I have 128down/128up, pay 80
dollars a mouth with 2 ips, I run a web server, email server, dns server
and ircd chat server with no problems. Although I would like more speed,
but cant afford any more atm.

On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 14:22, will hill wrote:
> No, Cox does not let you have fixed IP outside "business class service" in 
> Baton Rouge.  They let me hold onto a static IP when they took over from at 
> home, charging just a little more, changing the address at least once in a 
> year, crimping the service and finally doing away with it.  By the time they 
> killed the service, I was paying $65/month for a static IP to my residence 
> that was not really static.  The cheapest BC is like $75 and slower than a 
> dial up modem.  They are forced to do stupid stuff like this by bigger fish.  
> It's going to cost them more than they will make.
> 
> The good people at the CCCC tell me that they can't even use their BC 
> connection to send email except through Cox smtp server.  What junk.
> 
> On 2003.07.29 12:32 Shannon Roddy wrote:
> 
> > Does Cox offer a static IP for $10 more a month on their residential 
> > service?  If they do, I might do that.  Not really worth it for the 
> > price, though it would be more convenient... hmm..  I thought you had to 
> > go to the business class service to get a static IP?
> > 
> > What REALLY ticks me off is that if you go to the business class service 
> > with Cox, you pay a lot MORE MONEY for a SLOWER CONNECTION!!!
> > 
> > Shannon
> > 
> 
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