[ale] Now that DirecTV DSL is discontinuing...

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Wed Dec 18 11:06:52 EST 2002


You can get a static IP from Earthlink for a lot less than a comercial
line from hellsouth. Yes, it costs $15/month. Yes it seems outragous.
But is EVERYBODY wanted a static IP, the IPv6 would have to happen
sooner and a static IP would be the standard for everybody! 

On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 10:33, John Mills wrote:
> ALErs -
> 
> On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, John Wells wrote:
> 
> > I use HellSouth DSL.  No problems with PPPOE at all.  Great uptime.  And
> > BellSouth also has external ethernet modems (you must request
> > specifically) which play very nicely with Linux.
> 
> I want static IP. I was told this requires a business account, which in
> turn requires a business phone line. I suppose this might be deemed
> illegal, but you couldn't get that determination in time to help me so
> BellSouth is off my list.
> 
>  - John Mills
> 
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