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
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001 23:29:22 -0500, "Steven T. Hatton" <hattons@bellatlantic.net> wrote:
I'll run my own mail and news servers rather than suffereing my ISPs idea of service.
TIA for any suggestions,
That's a lot of effort and expense just to get good mail and news service. I would suggest you try us. Your first month is only $7. We offer IMAP and POP3 email, Usenet news, web hosting, and shell accounts. See our list of local access numbers at www.sevenkings.net Egan
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
Well, most ISP's have a dedicated DSL plan that gives you a static IP or IP's. From that you can run all the toys you want. Though News is a pain in the rump. Mail is easy though, especially if you only have a single domain. I used to do that off of a dedicated ISDN line, but I moved to cable, and mail servers be verboten. So I run my email and web off a colo. FTP too :) Plus knowing how to install sendmail/qmail/MTA of choice looks good on a resume. :) Vulpine -- Christopher "Vulpine" Kalley - System Administrator, Cyberfox Networks vulpine@cyberfox.org ICQ #: 9953685 AIM: Vulpine137 http://www.cyberfox.org http://www.cyberfox.org/~vulpine "Luck is my middle name. Mind you, my first name is Bad" -- Rincewind
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
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 -- RKBA! Charles L Hamilton Houston, TX Rot13 email: punfz@fpuhrgmrazrvfgre.bet X-NO-ARCHIVE: YES
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
-- RKBA! Charles L Hamilton Houston, TX Rot13 email: punfz@fpuhrgmrazrvfgre.bet X-NO-ARCHIVE: YES
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At 12:25 PM 3/26/2001 -0800, schuetzen - RKBA! wrote:
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
isent it chaeper to have some one host it ? bunch of them advertise in the linux mags.
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
-- RKBA! Charles L Hamilton Houston, TX Rot13 email: punfz@fpuhrgmrazrvfgre.bet X-NO-ARCHIVE: YES
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This is not an answer to the question you asked, but since I see you're in the Bell-Atl/Verizon area, you may be within the area of i-2000.com. I've had their ADSL for about a year now, and no complaints at all. As someone's commercial says, "It just works!" --doug At 11:29 PM 03/22/2001 -0500, you 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
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