home network/site

[agabriel at coe.neu.edu (Anthony J. Gabrielson)]

Hello,
	I have DSL on order and I'm getting a static ip.  You just need to
find out where your local service station is.  Min is about 1200 feet from
my house, it needs to be under 13000 feet of cable from your house to the
service station.  I don't know how long it takes to get cable installed,
but it seems to take about a month for DSL.  DSL is $40 a month for 408kb
down and 208kb up.  Installation and modem are free, and they don't care
what OS you are running.  I have heard a few horror stories about cable
and DSL - I guess I find out in three days if I can get or not.  Any way
go to www.flashcom.com - they are going to be my ISP for DSL.

Hope thats a help,
Anthony

Here's hoping they can really install it...



On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, TMacDonald wrote:

> Have set up home network, linux machine with ppp connection, windoze and
> FreeBSD running on other machines.  Have been looking into cable or dsl.
> 
> My expectations where that I could have setup done on windoze machine and then
> swap out for Linux or FreeBSD to hang the network on.  Also expected that I
> could register a domain name and run a server.
> 
> Both cable and dsl seem to use DHCP....so this precludes a registered domain
> name?
> 
> For seamless switch from windoze ISP setup to network looks like I should set
> up a duel boot machine (I assume the MAC address stays the same...card
> specific not OS specific?).
> 
> How does one come up with a service that will provide a fixed IP address and
> name servers (this is what I an looking for...right?).  I am in North Andover,
> I thank any and all for pointing in the right direction.  THANKS
> 
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