[ale] Re-send: Opinions on Cable versus DSL

[Greg]

I am paying $45 / month for telocity DSL with a fixed IP.  For $10 more you
can have a NAT type firewall and connection sharing for the whole house to
enjoy.  Until I got my server up I used that and it was fine.  Only an
occasional interruption that a re-boot would fix, BUT TO BE FAIR.. I this
was an all MS household then.  Telocity will answer questions about Linux
and I always got some one who was competent in a reasonably fast time.

The modem / router was easy to set up and all of the "fixin's"  - DSL
adapters for the phones - where in working order. If you have Bell South DSL
eligibility, then you can get Telocity DSL service, since I am using Bell's
lines.  I used to have DSL with Mindspring and it was ok until the merger
with Earthlink...... hmm.. <rant on competition>... When I looked at getting
a fixed IP from Earthlink it was about $145.00.....guess they saw the light
and came down.. Also the Earthlink service was about 50% as good as
Mindspring's service.

Good Luck

-----Original Message-----
From:	owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jay Finch
Sent:	Monday, July 23, 2001 4:40 PM
To:	ale at ale.org
Subject:	[ale] Re-send: Opinions on Cable versus DSL

Hey everyone,

I know this question has been asked a million and one times, but being that
the technology has changed so much in the past few months and I'm only now
becoming concerned with it, I wanted some opinions.

I've been a Charter Comm. Cable Modem subscriber for about 3 years now, and
have had pretty good service.  It's been fairly peppy, but I hate how it
goes down when it rains (without fail) and other weird routing and downtime
issues.  I just got a notice from BellSouth that I'm (finally!) eligible
for DSL service.

What I want to know is this: How reliable is DSL vs. Cable?  What about the
speeds?  (I generally get 1.5MB download and 128k upload on Cable fairly
consistently, depending on I-net traffic.)

Additionally, I'm using a Linux box as my firewall/gateway, and I have a
Static IP with Charter right now.  I know that Mindspring & Bellsouth both
use PPPoE with DHCP as a standard, but Mindspring offers a Static IP for
$15 extra a month.

I want a static IP.  From y'alls experience: Do Mindspring and Bellsouth
refresh their IPs often enough to warrant asking for a static one?  (I have
several DNS mappings to my home machine right now.)

And finally, I know that neither "support" Linux -- I know my stuff fairly
well in getting a box configured, but how much of a bear is it to configure
for DSL vs. Cable?  (And is there a "better" DSL ISP for Linux? I'm trying
to keep my costs around $50-$60/month, which is what I'm paying for my
Cable Modem right now.)

Thanks in advance for y'alls help.  :~)

Cheers!
Jay


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