[SGVLUG] DSL: static or faster?

[charles at knownelement.com]

You can order uverse with just net. Over the phone. Its called internet only. 

I curently have dsl from att. 6mbps down, 768k up. No filtering. 7 static ip addresses. English support. 70.00 a month. 


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-----Original Message-----
From: Claude Felizardo <cafelizardo at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 19:50:48 
To: SGVLUG Discussion List.<sgvlug at sgvlug.net>
Subject: [SGVLUG] DSL: static or faster?

I've been a long time happy customer of Pacbell/SBC/AT&T's DSL service since
'99 but I think it's time to upgrade.  I'm paying $25/mo for 1.5 Mbs down
and 384 Kbs up but I have one of those original accounts with a static IP
and no restrictions on hosting so I've been trying to hold off on making any
changes.

I looked at AT&T's U-verse Internet (their version of fiber) but if I'm
reading their web pages correctly, I can't order it unless I order it with
their TV service which doesn't sound all that good compared to what I have
now with my TiVo's and TimeWarner cable.  A big show stopper is that their
IPTV is not compatible with my HD TiVo so I'd have to use their DVR's which
aren't very mature.  I'd be giving up many features I have now so why would
I want to pay more for less?  Now if it is possible to order just their
U-verse Internet w/o TV, does anyone know what the installation is like?  I
have a detached garage but there's a concrete patio/walkway between the
garage the house.  Don't really have room in the house either so the only
place available is outside at the demarc.  Can they install it there
assuming I run power to the area?

Now apparently AT&T has a promo right now (I think it ends July) were you
can order any of their DSL tiers for only $25/mo for the first year (then it
goes up to who knows what) so I could upgrade to either 3 Mbs or possibly 6
Mbs but is it worth giving up my static IP?

As for cable, is it a myth about sharing the bandwidth with everyone in the
neighborhood?  I've pretty much had consistent speeds with DSL.

I'm familiar with dynamic DNS services.  I've been using dyndns.org to map
my static IP but don't have any first hand experience with dynamic IP's.
How often do they change?  I assume there's a Linux client available for
monitoring changes and pushing updates out to dyndns.org?

Tom, did you ever switch or do you still have the same service?  Anyone
else?

claude

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