Re: The lowdown on ADSL

[John Corey <john@jcorey.org>]

Jordan Bettis 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.
> 
> That's intresting. I'll take that into consideration. Does anyone know of
> any good (cheap) DynDNS servers? If I could get my name hosted on one of
> them, I could write a shell script to call them and change my IP every
> time Davesworld cycles it. In which case, floating IPs will become moot.

I've used dyndns.org for quite some time with few problems overall. 
It's free, and they've got like six or seven domains you can pick from.

> > AT&T just started rolling cable modems December/January.  From a couple
> > people that have had them, they're pissed.  They tell me how they go
> > down too often, etc, but the bandwidth is nice when it is up.  I've read
> > several personal web pages and such about cable rollouts and they always
> > say how it's bumpy for the first year or so.  So I guess, beware...
> 
> 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.

If you can find a good provider, DSL is nice.  GallatinRiver.net in the
Pekin area has been quite good up here, static IPs, no downtime I've
heard of from those I know using it, and best of all they don't care if
you run small-time mail/web servers.

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