[wplug] Official word on Telerama DSL

[Edward C. Smith]

I personally don't mind at all. Especially cause now I can ask if anyone
knows if any of the local companies offer DSL up toward Butler. 

Verizon has no presence up here. It's all sprint and PennTelecom. 

-Ed

On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 16:53, Doug Luce wrote:
> Someone just forwarded a link to the archives containing the DSL
> discussion from last weekend.  I just wanted to chime in with some
> official answers to questions posed.
> 
> Telerama gives out multiple statics (up to 3) if you want 'em, and you
> don't even need to run NAT.  In addition, you can just use DHCP to get
> globally-routable addresses assigned to additional computers.  I run one
> box with a static address at my house, and have three wireless laptops
> that use DHCP to obtain addresses from Telerama.  I don't run a router:
> everything is hooked to a cheap hub that's connected directly to the ADSL
> modem.  It's sort of like Telerama doing NAT for you, except the addresses
> are globally routable (i.e. *not* "10.0.0.1" etc.)
> 
> The basic ADSL service is sold at $48.95 for "personal use".  This does
> not exclude servers.  My personal use includes running an SSH server, mail
> server for my personal domain, FTP server for downloading the odd item
> from home, and a single-stream server fed by a cam pointed at my cat.
> 
> I also run a web server for family to download digital photographs.  I
> think this is the upper bound of acceptable usage on a DSL line.
> Services provided for you and a small group of friends/family is pretty
> much what I've got in mind.
> 
> There are some obvious no-no's: running a public MUD, setting up a Linux
> distribution site, hosting your company's web site, etc.  I'm not going to
> let you pay $48.95 for an uplink for your own ISP, either.  I am also not
> real hip on people leaving Kazaa, Morpheus or a Gnutella client connected
> to the search network 24 hours a day.
> 
> Hope that answers things, and I hope nobody's too upset at me plugging
> Telerama on the list.
> 
> Doug Luce
> Founder
> Telerama
> 
> 
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