Cable no prob. Static IP not needed. (was: Re: Soon to be gone....)

[Tim Kemp WB4BAH]

Don't judge them all by what @home does.  My Time-Warner Road Runner
cable service hasn't even glitched for a second in several months now.
The log on the Linux router here shows the last glitch as being one of
about 8 seconds and that was last September.  The first 3-4 months I
gave it it's share of cussing, but since they got the bugs out it has
been as good as gold 24/7.

I wish our Mindspring/Earthlink dialup service we had used for years
previous to that had been even 10% as good.

Busy-Disconnect-Busy-Slow-Busy-Disconnect,etc.  Sometimes for hours.

BTW, you don't need a static IP for an onsite server. We have one here
and don't have static IP.  There are programs you can run which will
automatically sense when your IP has changed and will automatically
notify the DNS server of the new IP address as soon as the change is
made.  That is how we do it.  Our's is not a public server.  It is a
family use server, but the same things would apply.  Someone who knows
Dale may wanna let him know.

Anyway, if it is like ours your IP never changes as long as you stay
connected.  Ours hasn't changed in months.

Carl Hyde wrote:
>
> Well, if his cable modem sucks as bad as mine does then we may never hear
from
> him again! I'm going back to a phone modem so that I can have internet
access
> more than two days a week. Don't get cable modem its the worst service
and
> reliability in the world.  @home.com should change their name to
> no-one at home.com
>
> --- Ed Kotkiewicz <ekotkie at EZL.COM> wrote:
> > I just visited Dale Wentz's site and found this disturbing piece of
> > information.  I have no idea how long it has been there or when it will
> > take effect.  Kinda sad........
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > "I am sad to say that the Ftp and WWWboard sections of my web pages are
> > going away. It was costing me too much money to
> >  maintain the static IP connection to my network at home. I am
> > converting to a cable modem and as a result will loose my static IP
> > address, and remote access to my home network. There is already a
> > Heathkit group set up on www.egroups.com, I would suggest
> >  that everyone that enjoyed the boards please check it out. I will
> > attempt to archive all the data off of the Tech board and make it
> >                                         available to everyone.
> >


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