Kenneth Lang wrote:
>Clifford: I am using @home service as well however we are now cutting over
>to Shaw from Rogers and thank God rogers is pulling out of town.
I hear you. Our client recently cut over from Shaw to Rogers unfortunately.
With Shaw, they had eight static IP addresses when they signed up. That
eventually got reduced to three. When it got transferred to Rogers, Rogers
in a great example of corporate-speak said something to the effect of "in
order to better serve you, we are no longer handing out static IPs". So,
now my client has to connect using dhcp and a hostname which begs the
question. Why is Rogers charging $150/mo. for businesses for a service that
they charge $40/mo to their home customers? There is no difference in the
service. Are corporate IP packets heavier? Sorry to digress.
>What I did was, I put a linksys 4 port hub into my shaw modem. Inside the
>linksys I put my cr-nnn name for host name and domain name I put @home,
>this holds my IP address and resets it every 6 days. This also puts all the
>appropriate setting for subnet and DNS for me. I recommend 1.37 of the
>firmware.
>
>In addition, it will act as a descent firewall as well. Then I opened port
>80, 25, 110 pointing it to my e-smith server.
I am not so sure it is a decent firewall. I saw nothing on their web site
that gave me comfort since they seem to confuse NAT with firewalling.
>I set the e-smith server as server only not gateway server.
>
>I registered my name at www.register.com which I can change on my own and
>will be refreshed within 24 hours if Shaw decides to change my IP.
>
>I set e-mail for multi-drop and created a custom 50multi-drop script which
>pops out to all my addresses including Shaw @home and pulls down all my
>e-mails and places them into each virtual domain. I set the settings to pop
>out every 2 hours.
Why multi-drop? You could have created as many POP accounts as you wanted
on your e-smith mail server. As I understand it, multi-drop is useful if
you have a dial-up account with your ISP.
>This works great and zero maintenance.
>
>All my users use outlook express on the desktop and they can view their
>e-mail on the e-smith server, and send on the e-smith as well. We have been
>on line for several months now and no issues.
>
>Now that Shaw and Rogers have changed territories and you get Rogers in
>Ontario, you will see why we thru them out of BC.
You didn't have to tell me. Rogers and Shaw divided up the Toronto area
prior to the swap of customers. I lived in a Rogers area. In all fairness,
they have not been too bad for me but I do get the occasional period of
maddeningly slow service followed minutes later by blistering speed and
even more infrequently, total lack of service with the most recent being a
day and a half with no connection.
Regards,
Clifford Ilkay
Dinamis Corporation
3266 Yonge Street, Suite 1419
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M4N 3P6
Voice/Fax: 416-410-3326
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
