[wplug] Verizon DSL opinions?

[Zach]

On 7/11/07, Drew from Zhrodague <drew at zhrodague.net> wrote:
>         I pay *under* $50/month for cable Internet from Comcast, which
> gives me basic cable too. There isn't much TV-wise, but makes a gret
> combo with MythTV -- some movies, Star Treks, plus the networks. This is a
> month-to-month service, and I am not locked into a contract.

Ah is it a special deal? Oh so if I get cable internet service I will
automatically get basic cable TV service which is the local channels
plus G4TV and a few other ones right? I don't know much about MythTV -
is that getting a TV tuner card and plugging your cable coax into it?

>         The Internet, at 5-6Mbps downstream, is quite nice, and they don't

Wow why is cable so much faster than similarly priced DSL?

> block any ports that I normally use. I actually run a local webserver, and
> do my secondary DNS out of it to boot.

Can you get a static ip with cable?

Zach