Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 18:32:20 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advice on how to straighten out a crappy ISP Message-ID: <a06001204bb164475a655@[10.0.1.4]> In-Reply-To: <r3isr32w6w.sr3@localhost.localdomain> References: <3EEFC568.70900@potentialtech.com> <a06001201bb1579948be2@[10.0.1.4]> <r3isr32w6w.sr3@localhost.localdomain>
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At 9:21 AM -0700 2003/06/18, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
>> 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?
Some providers make static IPs available, if you're willing to
pay for them. Some don't. It all depends on your provider.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
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