--- Dustin Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At Bell Atlantic the connection from the CO to the > main office was a T-1 even though the system > recommended an OC-3 for the amount of lines they > had. What you got was dedicated bandwidth to the > CO, from there it is shared bandwidth.
Better to have a choke point at the CO than to have one for the neighborhood segment on top of that. Like I pointed out in my previous post, with my block, even if they had a dedicated line to just my block, 300 units times 7-8 buildings equals a lot of potential cable modem user on a small pipe. It really depends on how many people are using cable for broadband. Also with Verizon, the static IP service is lumped under Verizon DSL Business Class, so you are allowed to run servers as part of your agreement. If you decide to use a dynamic IP instead, you connect using DHCP. When you order the service, you receive a box with the DSL modem, a disk with Outlook Express and Internet Explorer, four DSL filters and instructions on how to connect the computer to the modem and phone line. The documentation they provide with the modem is confusing (My invoice stated that the modem was a PPPoE modem, and it took me two days of being stubborn to call tech support to find out that they use standard DHCP). They will not help you troubleshoot your system, since they do not support anything other than Mac or Windows. I had a hard time convincing an after-hours tech that he couldn't support my OS. Even with the lack of Linux support, I found it pretty easy to set it up. Casey Roberts __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/