I am also running Comcast cable. It seems to be very stable, and my cable router has kept my DHCP lease updated for almost a year now, (I was with AT&T before they switched to comcast) so I basically have a static IP address. I haven't had comcast block any of my ports, (my friend says that several ports were blocked with his DSL through MSN, stay away from them...) and I have been running a small family web site without any problems.
The one problem I have with comcast is that they REQUIRE you have cable TV service included, or they charge your for it anyways. That is about $46 for 1MB down/ 256k up Internet + $13 minimum cable tv + $25 for basic phone @ a total of about $84. DSL is about $45 for 256k up/down internet + $25 for phone @ a total of $70. To me the extra down bandwith is worth it, and to my wife the cable tv is worth it... Kenneth -----Original Message----- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 09:45:15 -0700 From: Bryan Murdock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uug] Best ISP in the valley To: BYU Unix Users Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 08:56, Jacob Albretsen wrote: > On Wednesday 10 September 2003 09:40 am, Andrew Hunter wrote: > > Whence the "yuck"? I admit that I don't know too much about cable vs. > > DSL, besides the usual coax vs. phone line implementation, but it seems > > that the two are vastly superior to dial-up and carrier pigeons. Why is > > DSL preferable? > > Last I checked into cable modems when it was AT & T, you could not run servers > (web, mail, ftp, etc), the IP address was not static, and AT & T had to be > your ISP. A lot of people such as myself want to be able to run a web server > on our connection. That's what I do with knine.net. (Good old Xmission) > And AT & T as an ISP, nowayman. I had cable with AT&T one summer and they seemed to be actually blocking port 80 so I couldn't run a webserver from home except on some other port, now I have cable with comcast and they don't block anything. It's still a dynamic IP address, but I've had the same one for about 4 months. Their policy officially states that you can't run "any servers" but I asked the tech support guy about this (I used an ssh server for remote access as an example and I think he even knew what I was talking about) and he said as long as I'm not chewing up a ton of bandwidth they don't really care. I run my little web site from home now. Bryan ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
