[ale] Re-send: Opinions on Cable versus DSL

[tfreeman at intel.digichem.net (Thompson Freeman)]

On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Wandered Inn wrote:

> Thompson Freeman wrote:
> > 
> > I'm coming up on 18 months with the former Telocity, now
> > (?) DirectStatelite or some such hokum. Price & speed are pretty good here
> > in Charlotte, don't know about other places. Unless things have changed,
> > you get a static ip assigned by DHCP. They seem to be pretty OS neutral,
> > and customer service does want to help.
> 
> Say again? DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol???)

  Yeah. You get the same IP everytime, but (and I'm guessing it is done
for administration purposes) you get it through DHCP, running on the
router. I have heard of people just claiming the IP, not running the DHCP
client, and running fine.


> 
> > 
> > Two negative issues I have are 1) I have to power cycle the dsl-router to
> > bring myself back on line something like once a month and 2) customer
> > support has had its ups and downs since I joined up.
> 
> And you've had the same IP from the beginning?

Yup. Same IP. Boggles the mind doesn't it?

> 
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