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Date:      Wed, 18 Jun 2003 11:29:22 -0500
From:      "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz>
To:        <chat@freebsd.org>, "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@attbi.com>
Subject:   Re: Advice on how to straighten out a crappy ISP
Message-ID:  <02e701c335b6$c737f8c0$c141d5cc@nitanjared>
References:  <3EEFC568.70900@potentialtech.com><a06001201bb1579948be2@[10.0.1.4]> <r3isr32w6w.sr3@localhost.localdomain>

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@attbi.com>
To: <chat@freebsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 11:21 AM
Subject: Re: Advice on how to straighten out a crappy ISP


> > Unfortunately, this may cost more 
> > money than buying a static IP address
> > for yourself.
> 
> Someone please explain the above statement
> made to a guy on cable.  I
> shut down my server after switching to 
> cable (Internet AND phone, after
> Qwest hosed me several times too often), 
> since I thought that static IP
> was out of the question on cable.  (The 
> cable contract even forbade
> dynamic DNS, IIRC.)  Do some cable 
> systems offer static IP or is there
> some other means to get static IP via 
> cable which I don't know about?

Cox offers static IP - small business
setup, about $70/month in Missouri/
NW Arkansas.  Additional statics are
$15 monthly, IIRC.

In contrast, standard "express"
package for homes is $24.95,
DHCP, and about 10-20% of
the "biz" bandwidth....

KDK




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