Advice on how to straighten out a crappy ISP

[Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear at attbi.com>
To: <chat at freebsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 11:21 AM
Subject: Re: Advice on how to straighten out a crappy ISP


> > Unfortunately, this may cost more 
> > money than buying a static IP address
> > for yourself.
> 
> Someone please explain the above statement
> made to a guy on cable.  I
> shut down my server after switching to 
> cable (Internet AND phone, after
> Qwest hosed me several times too often), 
> since I thought that static IP
> was out of the question on cable.  (The 
> cable contract even forbade
> dynamic DNS, IIRC.)  Do some cable 
> systems offer static IP or is there
> some other means to get static IP via 
> cable which I don't know about?

Cox offers static IP - small business
setup, about $70/month in Missouri/
NW Arkansas.  Additional statics are
$15 monthly, IIRC.

In contrast, standard "express"
package for homes is $24.95,
DHCP, and about 10-20% of
the "biz" bandwidth....

KDK