[Cialug] Internet access

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

Yeah, John Todd contacted me privately and gave me a Google Maps URL 
that shows (approximately) the path the that wire takes to get to my 
place. As someone with little interaction with the telecom world, the 
path is a lot longer than i would have expected.

I don't know why i have modem trouble; i think i've even had it replaced 
once. But still, every few months i have to reset it. Last year i was in 
Japan for 3 months and it locked up a couple times, but fortunately 
Internet Solver was able to do something on their side to make the modem 
reset without someone having to physically touch it. Normally when i 
have trouble with it and i'm in the US i just power cycle it and don't 
bother to open a support ticket though.

On 2013-10-04 at 15:24:06 Dave Weis wrote:
> I didn't realize you were having modem troubles. Even though you're
> physically near the CO there's still a long loop of old copper
> winding through the neighborhood before arriving at your home.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On
> Behalf Of L. V. Lammert Sent: Friday, October 04, 2013 10:20 AM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Internet access
> 
> On Fri, 4 Oct 2013, Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:
> > I would not consider cable, just because (as far as i know, please
> > correct me if i'm wrong) cable does not offer a static, routable IP
> > and does not allow running servers.
> 
> Sure it does! You just have to provision them with business service,
> .. just as DSL.
> 
> If you want to use 'residential' service, you have to use a dynamic
> DNS provider just as DSL.
> > And reliability is definitely important; my current ISP provides me
> > with a modem, but i have to reset it every 1-2 months.
> 
> Sounds like DSL? We have had 30Mbps Charter service here in the shop
> for many years, and have never experienced an outage. Residential
> service even! [Have not figured out a way to multi-home the servers
> here that could use the bandwidth, so we do not use Business
> Service.]
> 
> 	Lee
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Daniel A. Ramaley
Network Engineer 2

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