Advice on how to straighten out a crappy ISP

[Brad Knowles]

At 9:21 AM -0700 2003/06/18, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:

>>  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?

	Some providers make static IPs available, if you're willing to 
pay for them.  Some don't.  It all depends on your provider.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
     -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.

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