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

[Brian Carling]

WOW! That sure beats ours. We have been trouble free for about 6-8 weeks now, but
Time Warner used to regularly go down from about Spetember through January here.
Sometimes for DAYS AT A TIME!

Time-Warner/RoadRunner would NEVER let us know what was going on
and we could never get them to answer their phone.

To their credit they have improved a lot lately.

On 15 Feb 2001, at 12:48, Tim Kemp WB4BAH wrote:

> 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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>
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