Re: The lowdown on ADSL

[Leon Jackson <ljackson@davesworld.net>]

At 02:33 PM 4/25/00 -0400, you wrote:
>
>On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, John Corey wrote:
>> > 
>> > He then confided that the IP won't change much at all. He said only if I
>> > shut down my computer (my 486 Masq proxy? not hardly) or they reboot the
>> > router, he said that they would not do that too often.
>> 
>> Yes, for some reason they say that, but it does change rather often.  My
>> brother has their DSL in Bloomington, and it's chaotic.  You can have
>> one IP for a week or two, then have 4 or 5 the next week.  Up here
>> (around Peoria) there are a couple DSP ISPs that just do static IPs by
>> default (and AT&T does that as well).  See if there is anyone else able
>> to offer DSL before going to them.
>
>So that dosen't sound like a good deal ether. I suppose I could buy DSL
>now and then decide later on if I want Cable instead. Hardware costs could
>get prohibitive though.
>

I don't know if they are still doing it, but when i signed up for dsl GTE
gave me the equipment.
or at least i  hope they did, it's been 2 months and no bill for it yet.

leon

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