Hi, users of the at-home service have different results depending on where
you are. In my case; I had to spend a week trying to figure out DHCP.
The tech support were no help. All they knew was Windows. I finally
got it working, and love the service, but it started out as a real
pain. I can't use there web sight with Lynx, but it's no big loss.
Kenny
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 01:38:57PM -0700, Karl Dahlke wrote:
> Someone described a pseudo-always-on dsl connection from Ameritech,
> wherein the company drops you if you're not busy,
> and you wake up with a new ip address.
> What a frightening thought.
>
> I've just started hosting my own web site, on my own machine,
> and I don't know why I didn't take the plunge long ago.
> It's easy, and it's fun.
> There are numerous advantages, and a couple disadvantages.
> Well anyways, it would be unthinkable if I had such a terrible isp.
> I certainly can't reprogram all the name servers on the internet
> every time they decide to give me a new ip address.
> The cable at-home service doesn't work like that,
> and I have nothing but good things to say about them.
> They even tried to help me set up,
> knowing that I was on Linux.
> That's pretty rare.
>
> Getting back to the IPs;
> one day we lost the bill, or it got lost in the mail, or whatever,
> and I was behind, so they turned off the service.
> I called with my credit card to turn it back on and asked,
> please please please,
> can I have my old ip back again.
> "Sure, we've been saving it for you."
> Now that's class,
> and its certainly important to those of us who are hosting our own sites.
>
> Karl Dahlke
>
>
>
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