On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Derek D. Martin wrote: > I've also been renumbered 3 times in the last week and a half or so.
Given that the service is advertised as having a dynamic address, that is hardly surprising. They are well within their rights to renumber you every time your DHCP lease expires. The fact that M1's addresses have been largely static is an accident, not a term of service. > Time to look into DSL I think... I doubt you'll find that much better, and likely worse. Many DSL providers use dynamic addresses as well. The ones that do not are generally going out of business, or already have. Additionally, on the average, cable is faster than residential DSL -- although DSL might have an advantage if you happen to be on a particularly over-subscribed cable segment. We tell our customers: If your Internet is critical, then be willing to fork over the cash for a leased line. When you buy residential Internet for $100 a month, you get what you pay for. (To help put things in perspective: A 56 Kbit/sec frame relay feed goes about $300 a month in our area, with an install fee of around $1000. A full 1.54 Mbit/sec T1 feed is about $1500/month, with as least that much for the install.) Be glad you have cable. Where I live, my only option (other than leased lines, see above) is a modem that never connects at a rate higher than 26 Kbit/sec. -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not | | necessarily represent the views or policy of any other person, entity or | | organization. All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | ********************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **********************************************************
