On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
I hate my ISP! I hate my ISP! I HATE MY ISP!!!! Now, does anybody want to know what I really think of verizon?
Anyhow, I'm wondering if there is a way to get a home connection to the internet with a fixed IP and 24x7 DSL with decent duplex through. I'll run my own mail and news servers rather than suffereing my ISPs idea of service.
TIA for any suggestions,
Steve
Pacbell DSL will give you 5 statics, 1.5M/128K bandwidth for $80 a month. The next jump is 32 statics (a full class C if you can justify it's use) and 2M/384k ($200). The upstream sucks, but the donwstream is reliable in my area. (San Diego) Between my rommate and I we have about 15 computers, with one IP used by a router natting to invalid IP's. We host about 20 different domains, mail servers, even a MS Exchange clunker, with no problems. The news server is the biggie. They are bandwidth hogs and you will need probably 50gig of space just to retain a few days worth of articles. (Unless you only suck what groups you want, ie. leave out the space sucking binary groups) Also, you will have to pay for this news feed. I think the $200 Pacbell deal gives you a free news feed but I know the $80 deal does not. We are going to the $200 deal shortly so I can let you know later if it is worth it. To us it is, since we are both consultants, having neutral email and access to our archive of code/scripts/configs is well worth the cost. -CC
for some reason, I never got the original of this message and that seems to be a recurring problem between my pc and this list - thanks to vulpine for overquoting this time. otherwise I would not have the full message now.
anyway -- I agree, I want to set up my own websites, elists, etc on a Linux Server. get them off Yahoo, etc. Static dsn is very expensive though. understandably perhaps, considering what all sort of traffic can be run on a static line. Questions though -- I guess it is just a matter of getting the proper hook ups and periphs and s/w etc.
Is there anyone on the list who has done this or is doing this?? I am using Suse 7.1.
thanks chas
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