[ale] Re: FYI - Charter Customers - Not specifically ALE related

[Glenn C. Lasher Jr.]

I think that the primary reason why Telocity wants you to use DHCP is to
ease the setup.  I don't believe there is anything 'pseudo' about their
static IP's, because when I originally ordered their service, they were
talking about the fact that if I wanted to, I could register my IP with a
name registrar.  That sounds pretty static to me, and it sold me on the
service.

Unfortunately, the thing that unsold me on the service was that it took
not one month, but five for Verizon to get me set up, and even then, they
did not succeed.  I am so disgusted with Verizon (this is not their only
point of incompetence) that I am considering cancelling my POTS service as
well, since I now get my internet service via cable modem.

On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Cade Thacker wrote:

> Hello, I use Telocity DSL at my house here in Smyrna.  It works great.
> Very little down time, and I was right on the distance bubble (~15,500),
> so i get about (up 400/down 400).  I was up and going within half an hour
> out of the box.(including reading the instructions) My big complaint was
> that it took them freakin forever to get my line set up, but I think that
> had to do with a combination of HellSouth and Telocity screwing up
> together....anyway I had been on a modem for years so I figured what would
> be one more month.  I do get a psudo static ip.  I have to set my nic to
> dhcp, but I am suppose to keep my same IP. I am not running any servers so
> I have not bothered to check, so when i signed up they told me that they
> could set up their DNS to point my site www.cade.org to my linux box here
> at the house. I did not take them up and kept hosting where it is.  I have
> had VERY little down time.  Like one or two times for about an hour.  My
> config is a RH6.2 firewall masq-ing a dual boot laptop, and a second RH6.2
> workstation.
> 
> If you(or anybody) has any specific questions about Telocity, i will be
> more than happy to answer any of them.  
> 
> 
> --cade
> 
> "Burn your tv in your yard, and gather round it with your friends,
> and warm your hands upon the fire and start again" --Toad the Wet Sprocket
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Michael Smith wrote:
> 
> > I am now looking at Telocity.  They offer an "external gateway"(probably
> > just a router) and static IP's.  They are OS independent.   They don't care
> > if you set up an ftp or web server either.  I know I'll only get 256kb
> > upload but at least I can make use of the upload  Also, anyone have any
> > experience with Telocity....besides the lucky guy who has the CO next to his
> > home.  Also, I heard a Bellsouth technician talking about ADSL and how it's
> > speed was actually throttled down due to FCC regulations.  Is there any
> > truth to this?  Anyone know what the theoretical top speed could be for
> > ADSL?
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bao Ha [mailto:baoh at linuxwizardry.com]
> > Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 11:10 AM
> > To: 'John H. Stephenson'; bill.cotton at myisi.com; 'Michael Smith';
> > ale at ale.org
> > Subject: RE: [ale] Re: FYI - Charter Customers - Not specifically ALE
> > related
> > 
> > 
> >  
> > Is BellSouth (Georgia) using PPPoE or DHCP?  BellSouth (Florida) is using
> > DHCP which is very easy to setup.
> >  
> > Either way, put the Linux server to do masquerading and you are all set to
> > go.  We
> > are building Linux-based routers which can handle DSL/cable modems quite
> > well.
> > In certain DSL areas, it works much better than the Windows-based Access
> > Manager, or even other routers like LinkSys.
> >  
> > Bao
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf Of John H.
> > Stephenson
> > Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 11:15 PM
> > To: bill.cotton at myisi.com; Michael Smith; ale at ale.org
> > Subject: Re: [ale] Re: FYI - Charter Customers - Not specifically ALE
> > related
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > BellSouth FastAccess DSL is finally available at my location. But I am
> > worried about the warnings that Bellsouth is giving on their site that says
> > that the DSL service "may not work with Windows2000." (See the Adobe pdf
> > file at https://fast1.corp.bellsouth.net/adsl/win2000.pdf and, please, no
> > flames for my using Windows!!!! :)
> > 
> > I am currently running a TCP/IP LAN in my home consisting of:
> > 1 Red Hat 7 Linux server
> > 1 Windows 2000 workstation
> > 1 Windows 2000 laptop
> > 1 Windows 98 workstation
> > 
> > This network is set-up thusly:
> > a Charter Cable COM21 Cable Modem (static IP) > a Watchguard Technologies
> > SOHO IP address sharing router/firewall > HP Procurve 10/100 Hub >
> > everything else
> > 
> > Everything is running fine now (when Charter is up and running)!
> > 
> > My questions (maybe dumb)...
> > 
> > Why does the DSL Modem care what OS is running on any of the systems in the
> > LAN?
> >  
> > Can I use the DSL service the same way that I am using Charter?
> > 
> > Will the Linux server be "supported" by the DSL service?
> > 
> > Should I bother messing with the setup that is generally working (even
> > though Charter's service is marginal with a lot of outages)?
> > 
> > Thanks, guys.
> > 
> > John
> > 
> > At 10:44 AM 12/7/2000, bill.cotton at myisi.com wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Hey Mikey!
> >  
> > I just ordered 416/416 SDSL from Megapath a few days ago.  Megapath is one
> > of the top rated DSL providers listed on DSLR (dslreports.com).  I have a
> > killer idea for sharing the cost and bandwidth with my neighbors.  I
> > currently have three static IP address with Charter.  I will be curious to
> > see how they deal with me.  By the way, where did you get this info?  I
> > never know what's going on with Charter.  The last couple of days I have had
> > horrible cable modem service.  Do you have a web site at your house?  I have
> > a demo site, but the folks in Switzerland always complain about it timing
> > out.  I was think I would have them try changing some of their TCP registry
> > setting to allow for my extremely slow upload speed.
> >  
> > B
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: Michael  <mailto:MSmith at webtonetech.com> Smith 
> > To: 'ale at ale.org' <mailto:'ale at ale.org'>  
> > Cc: Bill Cotton (E-mail) <mailto:Bill.Cotton at MyISI.com>  
> > Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 3:01 PM
> > Subject: FYI - Charter Customers - Not specifically ALE related
> > 
> > Here's an FYI for those of you using the Charter Cable Modem service
> > and have COM 21 modems.  I just talked to someone at Charter Communications
> > and found out that they are taking all the COM 21 modems out of service.
> > They are also moving to DHCP from static IP's(major bummer).  They will be
> > replacing all the COM 21 modems with Surfboard modems within the next couple
> > off months.  The major bummer is that they will still offer static IP's but
> > at $150.  I guess I might start looking at DSL again.  The static IP was the
> > only thing keeping me on cable anyways.....
> > 
> > Michael A. Smith
> > Senior Software Developer
> > 
> > 
> 
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