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

Jeff Hubbs hbbs at attbi.com
Tue Dec 17 23:33:34 EST 2002


How's Earthlink as far as running servers goes?

- Jeff

On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 11:06, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> 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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