-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Benjamin Scott said:
> On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Derek D. Martin wrote: > > I've also been renumbered 3 times in the last week and a half or so. > > Given that the service is advertised as having a dynamic address, that is > hardly surprising. They are well within their rights to renumber you every > time your DHCP lease expires. They may well be within their rights, but just because you CAN do something, doesn't mean you should. If they want to renumber that frequently, they should expire leases more often. The way they renumber is disruptive; my service just stops working at some point (usually it seems when the person who's been assigned my address starts using it), and after I have been renumbered I often have trouble getting my new IP. This, apparently, is because their DHCP servers are overwhelmed. And the old IP continues to work until someone else starts using it... So I'm usually out during prime-time usage. It's quite annoying. > The fact that M1's addresses have been largely static is an > accident, not a term of service. I don't mind being renumbered periodically, but given how disruptive it is it should be a lot less frequent than it's been happening lately. I don't think it's wrong to demand better service than what I've been getting. > > Time to look into DSL I think... > > I doubt you'll find that much better, and likely worse. Many DSL > providers use dynamic addresses as well. The ones that do not are generally > going out of business, or already have. Additionally, on the average, cable > is faster than residential DSL -- although DSL might have an advantage if > you happen to be on a particularly over-subscribed cable segment. Well, that may be true, but it can't hurt to look. I know there are at least some providers who will provide that service in the Nashua area (where I'm moving to at the end of the month)... A friend has static IP addresses (plural!) where he's at. > We tell our customers: If your Internet is critical, then be willing to > fork over the cash for a leased line. WHY? The technology exists to have it a lot cheaper than leased line prices (and I *AM* willing to pay more for premium service, that they do not offer, btw, though they originally said they would be). Why should we all be raped for something that should be as cheap and commonplace as the telephones in your house? > When you buy residential Internet for $100 a month, you get what you > pay for. I'm beginning to disagree. When I had 56k dial-up through earthlink, it was more reliable than my service has been lately. And so long as I disconnected for a while here and there, they didn't complain about me leaving it connected all the time. The only problem is that it was damn slow. Considering this techology is permanently attached to your house, providing good service just shouldn't be that hard, in my opinion. Now if they've got fiber outages as a result of recent events, that's one thing, but Kenny's message is the first I've heard of that... I'm more inclined to believe their just doing a poor job. It's why I got rid of AT&T's dial-up service 3 years ago... And this is ignoring such asinine service disruptions as indiscriminately blocking ports... - -- Derek Martin Senior System Administrator Mission Critical Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7ywdIdjdlQoHP510RArOcAJ9N0GCaMjpd4pRsaC5nbQD0dwDoLACcDAMz IN9AxSrWPpzKfLxm5FKkJug= =Akc2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ********************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **********************************************************
